TY - JOUR
T1 - Interspecies entanglement with impurity atoms in a lattice gas
AU - Sarkar, S
AU - McEndoo, S
AU - Schneble, D
AU - Daley, A J
PY - 2020/8/7
Y1 - 2020/8/7
N2 - The dynamics of impurity atoms introduced into bosonic gases in an optical lattice have generated a lot of recent interest, both in theory and experiment. We investigate to what extent measurements on either the impurity species or the majority species in these systems are affected by their interspecies entanglement. This arises naturally in the dynamics and plays an important role when we measure only one species. We explore the corresponding effects in strongly interacting regimes, using a combination of few-particle analytical calculations and density matrix renormalisation group methods in one dimension. We identify how the resulting effects on impurities can be used to probe the many-body states of the majority species, and separately ask how to enter regimes where this entanglement is small, so that the impurities can be used as probes that do not significantly affect the majority species. The results are accessible in current experiments, and provide important considerations for the measurement of complex systems with using few probe atoms.
AB - The dynamics of impurity atoms introduced into bosonic gases in an optical lattice have generated a lot of recent interest, both in theory and experiment. We investigate to what extent measurements on either the impurity species or the majority species in these systems are affected by their interspecies entanglement. This arises naturally in the dynamics and plays an important role when we measure only one species. We explore the corresponding effects in strongly interacting regimes, using a combination of few-particle analytical calculations and density matrix renormalisation group methods in one dimension. We identify how the resulting effects on impurities can be used to probe the many-body states of the majority species, and separately ask how to enter regimes where this entanglement is small, so that the impurities can be used as probes that do not significantly affect the majority species. The results are accessible in current experiments, and provide important considerations for the measurement of complex systems with using few probe atoms.
KW - impurity physics
KW - interspecies entanglement
KW - optical lattices
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095452707&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1367-2630/ab9fc1
DO - 10.1088/1367-2630/ab9fc1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85095452707
VL - 22
JO - New Journal of Physics
JF - New Journal of Physics
SN - 1367-2630
M1 - 083017
ER -