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Title: Simulating the Wess-Zumino Supersymmetry Model in Optical Lattices

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
 [1];  [2]
  1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100190 (China)
  2. NHMFL and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 (United States)

We study a cold atom-molecule mixture in two-dimensional optical lattices. We show that, by fine-tuning the atomic and molecular interactions, the Wess-Zumino supersymmetry (SUSY) model in 2+1 dimensions emerges in the low-energy limit and can be simulated in such mixtures. At zero temperature, SUSY is not spontaneously broken, which implies identical relativistic dispersions of the atom and its superpartner, a bosonic diatom molecule. This defining signature of SUSY can be probed by single-particle spectroscopies. Thermal breaking of SUSY at a finite temperature is accompanied by a thermal Goldstone fermion, i.e., phonino excitation. This and other signatures of broken SUSY can also be probed experimentally.

OSTI ID:
21471025
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 15; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.150605; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English