Friday, April 19, 2013

1304.4959 (Tony E. Lee et al.)

Unconventional magnetism via optical pumping of interacting spin systems    [PDF]

Tony E. Lee, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Mikhail D. Lukin
We consider strongly interacting systems of effective spins, subject to dissipative spin-flip processes associated with optical pumping. We predict the existence of novel magnetic phases in the steady-state of this system, which emerge due to the competition between coherent and dissipative processes. Specifically, for strongly anisotropic spin-spin interactions, we find ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, spin-density-wave, and staggered-XY steady states, which are separated by nonequilibrium phase transitions meeting at a Lifshitz point. These transitions are accompanied by quantum correlations, resulting in spin squeezing. Experimental implementations in ultracold atoms and trapped ions are discussed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4959

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