2025/09/05 by Michele Miotto, Anonymous, Miotto, Michele +12
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Dipole #Ferrimagnetism #Ferromagnetism #Flux (metallurgy) #Lattice (music) #Magnetic field #Magnetic flux #Magnetism #Optical lattice #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum #Quantum phases #Spectroscopy and Laser Applications #Supersolid #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Ultracold atom
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/tbp3-7rh3
openalex publication_date 2026/06/12 · openalex created_date 2026/06/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/13
Supersolidity and magnetism are fundamental phenomena characterizing strongly correlated matter. Here we unveil a mechanism that directly connects these two regimes and can be experimentally accessed in ultracold atomic systems. Specifically, we exploit the distinctive properties of magnetic lanthanide atoms trapped in a one-dimensional antimagic wavelength optical lattice. This platform enables a realistic implementation of a triangular Bose-Hubbard ladder featuring two key ingredients: strong long-range interactions and tunable gauge fields. Owing to these properties, our numerical analysis reveals a robust lattice supersolid regime with finite fluxes in each triangular plaquette. Remarkably, we show that the density modulation of the supersolid phase and a finite gauge field induce magnetic ordering of the fluxes, forming ferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic patterns. Our results thus reveal a quantum effect that bridges supersolidity and magnetism.