Spatial inversion symmetry breaking of vortex current in biased-ladder superfluid
Quantum Gases
2023-08-01 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We investigate the quench dynamics of interacting bosons on a two-leg ladder in presence of a uniform Abelian gauge field. The model hosts a variety of emergent quantum phases, and we focus on the superfluid biased-ladder phase breaking the symmetry of two legs. We observe an asymmetric spreading of vortex current and particle density, i.e., the current behaves particle-like on the right and wave-like on the left, indicating spontaneous breaking of the spatial inversion symmetry. By decreasing the repulsion strength, it is found the particle-like current is more robust than the wave-like one. The evolution of entanglement entropy manifests logarithmic growth with time suggesting many-body localization matters.
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@article{arxiv.2307.15889,
title = {Spatial inversion symmetry breaking of vortex current in biased-ladder superfluid},
author = {Weijie Huang and Yao Yao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15889},
year = {2023}
}
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7 pages, 5 figures