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Robust Bilayer Charge-Pumping for Spin- and Density-Resolved Quantum Gas Microscopy

Quantum Gases 2020-07-08 v1

Abstract

Quantum gas microscopy has emerged as a powerful new way to probe quantum many-body systems at the microscopic level. However, layered or efficient spin-resolved readout methods have remained scarce as they impose strong demands on the specific atomic species and constrain the simulated lattice geometry and size. Here we present a novel high-fidelity bilayer readout, which can be used for full spin- and density-resolved quantum gas microscopy of two-dimensional systems with arbitrary geometry. Our technique makes use of an initial Stern-Gerlach splitting into adjacent layers of a highly-stable vertical superlattice and subsequent charge pumping to separate the layers by 21μ21\,\mum. This separation enables independent high-resolution images of each layer. We benchmark our method by spin- and density-resolving two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard systems. Our technique furthermore enables the access to advanced entropy engineering schemes, spectroscopic methods or the realization of tunable bilayer systems.

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@article{arxiv.2002.07577,
  title  = {Robust Bilayer Charge-Pumping for Spin- and Density-Resolved Quantum Gas Microscopy},
  author = {Joannis Koepsell and Sarah Hirthe and Dominik Bourgund and Pimonpan Sompet and Jayadev Vijayan and Guillaume Salomon and Christian Gross and Immanuel Bloch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07577},
  year   = {2020}
}
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