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Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy At Ultra-low Temperatures
Published on: October 9, 2012
Observation of 2D Fermionic Mott Insulators of ^{40}K with Single-Site Resolution
Lawrence W Cheuk1, Matthew A Nichols1, Katherine R Lawrence1
1Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Abstract:
We report on the site-resolved observation of characteristic states of the two-dimensional repulsive Fermi-Hubbard model, using ultracold ^{40}K atoms in an optical lattice. By varying the tunneling, interaction strength, and external confinement, we realize metallic, Mott-insulating, and band-insulating states. We directly measure the local moment, which quantifies the degree of on-site magnetization, as a function of temperature and chemical potential. Entropies per particle as low as 0.99(6)k_{B} indicate that nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic correlations should be detectable using spin-sensitive imaging.
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