Manipulation of heteronuclear spin dynamics with microwave and vector light shift
Abstract
We report the observation and manipulation of heteronuclear spin dynamics in a spin-1 mixture of ultracold Rb and Na atoms. The dynamics is driven by the interspecies spin-dependent interaction and shows a pronounced dependence on magnetic fields with influences from both linear and quadratic Zeeman shifts. Similar to the well-studied homonuclear cases, the interspecies spin dynamics can be controlled by tuning the quadratic Zeeman shift with far-detuned microwave fields. In addition, we successfully realize spin dynamics control with vector light shifts which act as a species-selective effective magnetic field on Rb atoms. Both methods show negligible loss of atoms thus will be powerful techniques for investigating spin dynamics with fast temporal and high spatial resolutions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2005.06098,
title = {Manipulation of heteronuclear spin dynamics with microwave and vector light shift},
author = {Lintao Li and Bing Zhu and Bo Lu and Shizhong Zhang and Dajun Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06098},
year = {2020}
}