Emergent spatial symmetry and inter-manifold avoided crossing of spin-1 lattice gas in the intermediate interaction regime

TL;DR

This paper explores how intermediate interactions in a spin-1 lattice gas lead to emergent spatial symmetries, hidden correlations, and avoided crossings in the eigenenergy spectrum, revealing enhanced spin-charge coupling effects.

Contribution

It uncovers the emergence of spatial inversion symmetry and inter-manifold avoided crossings due to intermediate interactions in a spin-1 lattice gas.

Findings

Emergent spatial inversion symmetry in spin and charge sectors.

Inter-sector coupling activates avoided crossings between eigenstates.

Enhanced spin-charge coupling effects in the intermediate regime.

Abstract

We investigate the low-filling spin-1 lattice gas in the intermediate interaction regime, in which the atom-atom interaction allows the decomposition of the system into the coupled spin and charge sectors, with lower energetical detuning between the two sectors than in the strong interaction regime. The low-lying eigenstates are grouped into different manifolds due to the decomposition, and are endowed with the emergent spatial inversion symmetry separately in the spin and charge sectors, which induces hidden correlations and affects the spin distribution of the system. The lowered energetical detuning between the two sectors activates the inter-sector coupling, and overlaps different manifolds in the eigenenergy spectrum, which leads to the crossings of eigenstates from different manifolds. The inter-sector coupling between the spin and charges is then witnessed by the the inter-manifold avoided crossings, which takes place between accidentally degenerate eigenstates of the same symmetry parity. Our work reveals the enhanced coupling effects between the spin and charge dopants of the spinor lattice gas in the intermediate interaction regime.