S O(3) “Nuclear Physics” with ultracold Gases

Rico, E.; Dalmonte, M.; Zoller, P.; Banerjee, Debasish; Bögli, Michael; Stebler, Pascal; Wiese, Uwe-Jens (2018). S O(3) “Nuclear Physics” with ultracold Gases. Annals of physics, 393, pp. 466-483. Elsevier 10.1016/j.aop.2018.03.020

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An ab initio calculation of nuclear physics from Quantum Chro-modynamics (QCD), the fundamental SU(3) gauge theory of thestrong interaction, remains an outstanding challenge. Here, wediscuss the emergence of key elements of nuclear physics usingan SO(3) lattice gauge theory as a toy model for QCD. We showthat this model is accessible to state-of-the-art quantum simula-tion experiments with ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. First,we demonstrate that our model shares characteristic many-bodyfeatures with QCD, such as the spontaneous breakdown of chiralsymmetry, its restoration at finite baryon density, as well as theexistence of few-body bound states. Then we show that in the one-dimensional case, the dynamics in the gauge invariant sector canbe encoded as a spin S =32Heisenberg model, i.e., as quantummagnetism, which has a natural realization with bosonic mixturesin optical lattices, and thus sheds light on the connection betweennon-Abelian gauge theories and quantum magnetism.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Theoretical Physics

UniBE Contributor:

Banerjee, Debasish, Bögli, Michael, Stebler, Pascal, Wiese, Uwe-Jens

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

0003-4916

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Esther Fiechter

Date Deposited:

07 Aug 2018 11:07

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:17

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.aop.2018.03.020

ArXiv ID:

1802.00022

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.119115

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/119115

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