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Spin-orbit-coupling-induced magnetic heterostructure in the bilayer Bose-Hubbard system

Quantum Gases 2016-12-21 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate magnetic phase in the bilayer system of ultra-cold bosons in an optical lattice, which is involved with Raman-induced spin-orbit (SO) coupling and laser-assisted interlayer tunneling. It is shown that there exit a rich of spin textures such as hetero ferromagnet, heterochiral magnet, chiral magnet with interlayer antiferromagnet. In particular, heterochiral magnet induced by SO coupling occurs extremely rarely in real solid-state materials. We present detailed experimental setup of realizing such a model in cold atom system.

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@article{arxiv.1607.07336,
  title  = {Spin-orbit-coupling-induced magnetic heterostructure in the bilayer Bose-Hubbard system},
  author = {Bo Xiong and Jun-hui Zheng and Yu-Ju Lin and Daw-wei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07336},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages of RevTex4-1, 4 figures