title: Controlling correlated tunneling and superexchange interactions with ac-driven optical lattices.
abstract: The dynamical control of tunneling processes of single particles plays a major role in science ranging from Shapiro steps in Josephson junctions to the control of chemical reactions via light in molecules. Here we show how such control can be extended to the regime of correlated tunneling of strongly interacting particles. Through a periodic modulation of a biased tunnel contact, we have been able to coherently control single-particle and correlated two-particle hopping processes. We have furthermore been able to extend this control to superexchange spin interactions in the presence of a magnetic-field gradient. Such photon-assisted superexchange processes constitute a novel approach to realize arbitrary XXZ spin models in ultracold quantum gases, where transverse and Ising-type spin couplings can be fully controlled in magnitude and sign.
authors.affiliation: Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany. Yu-Ao.Chen@lmu.de
authors.forename: Yu-Ao
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nascimbène
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aidelsburger
authors.forename: Marcos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Atala
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Trotzky
authors.forename: Immanuel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bloch