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Two Fermions in a Double Well: Exploring a Fundamental Building Block of the Hubbard Model

2015; American Physical Society; Volume: 114; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.114.080402

1092-0145

Simon Murmann, Andrea Bergschneider, Vincent M. Klinkhamer, G. Zürn, Thomas Lompe, Selim Jochim,

Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

We have prepared two ultracold fermionic atoms in an isolated double-well potential and obtained full control over the quantum state of this system. In particular, we can independently control the interaction strength between the particles, their tunneling rate between the wells and the tilt of the potential. By introducing repulsive (attractive) interparticle interactions we have realized the two-particle analog of a Mott-insulating (charge-density-wave) state. We have also spectroscopically observed how second-order tunneling affects the energy of the system. This work realizes the first step of a bottom-up approach to deterministically create a single-site addressable realization of a ground-state Fermi-Hubbard system.