Creation and dynamics of remote spin-entangled pairs in the expansion of strongly correlated fermions in an optical lattice

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Keßler, Stefan ^a   McCulloch, Ian P ^b   Marquardt, Florian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY MATRIX RENORMALIZATION GROUP; INTERACTION STRENGTH; NON-EQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS; ONE DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL LATTICE; SPIN CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; SPIN ENTANGLEMENT; STRONGLY CORRELATED FERMIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT MODULATION;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 84879022842     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/5/053043     Document Type: Article

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