Topological phases in polar-molecule quantum magnets

ORAL

Abstract

We show that ultracold polar molecules pinned in an optical lattice and interacting via dipolar interactions can be used to implement a huge variety of exotic quantum magnets. These can be used to realize, for example, fractional Chern insulators, symmetry protected topological phases, the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 Hamiltonian, and the Kitaev honeycomb model. [References for some of the results: arXiv:1207.4479, arXiv:1210.5518]

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Authors

  • Alexey Gorshkov

    • IQI
    • IQIM, California Institute of Technology
    • IQI, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
    • California Institute of Technology

  • Salvatore Manmana

    • Georg-August-University Goettingen

  • E.M. Stoudenmire

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine, CA 92697, USA
    • University of California, Irvine

  • Kaden Hazzard

    • JILA, NIST and Department of Physics, CU Boulder, CO 80309, USA
    • University of Colorado, Boulder
    • JILA, NIST, CU-Boulder

  • Ana Maria Rey

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Norman Yao

    • Harvard University

  • Chris Laumann

    • Harvard University

  • Steven Bennett

    • Harvard University

  • Andreas Lauchli

    • University of Innsbruck

  • Peter Zoller

    • University of Innsbruck

  • Jun Ye

    • JILA, CU Boulder
    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Eugene Demler

    • Harvard University
    • Harvard University Physics Department

  • Mikhail Lukin

    • Harvard University