Fig. 3: Observation of the flux-dependent inter-leg polarization.
From: Observation of frustrated chiral dynamics in an interacting triangular flux ladder
a Chiral dynamics of the atoms along the ladder is measured within an evolution time t = 2ℏ/J for obtaining the averaged normalized population \({\overline{P}}_{0}\) (\({\overline{P}}_{1}\)) in the j = 0 (1) leg. b Variation of the experimentally measured average inter-leg polarization calculated as \({{\Delta }}\overline{P}\) = \({\overline{P}}_{0}\) − \({\overline{P}}_{1}\) with the flux ϕ for different interactions U/J. c–e Variations of the measured average populations \({\overline{P}}_{0}\) and \({\overline{P}}_{1}\) with increasing U/J for different ϕ. f–h Average inter-leg polarization \({{\Delta }}\overline{P}\) extracted from the data in (c–e) as a function of U/J for different ϕ. The dashed lines are the numerical simulations. All error bars denote standard errors. In all panels, the inter- and intra-leg hopping rates are J/h = 0.4 kHz and K/h = 0.2 kHz, respectively.
