Spectroscopic signatures of emergent elementary excitations in a kinetically constrained long-range interacting two-dimensional spin system

TL;DR

This paper investigates elementary excitations in a kinetically constrained 2D Rydberg lattice gas, revealing their properties, how they depend on interaction parameters, and proposing experimental probing methods, with findings on collective enhancement effects.

Contribution

It provides a theoretical analysis of elementary excitations in a kinetically constrained long-range interacting 2D spin system, highlighting their properties and experimental signatures.

Findings

Elementary excitations depend on interaction strength and range.

Collective many-body enhancement observed in transition rates.

Proposed sideband spectroscopy for experimental detection.

Abstract

Lattice spin models featuring kinetic constraints constitute a paradigmatic setting for the investigation of glassiness and localization phenomena. The intricate dynamical behavior of these systems is a result of the dramatically reduced connectivity between many-body configurations. This truncation of transition pathways often leads to a fragmentation of the Hilbert space, yielding highly collective and therefore often slow dynamics. Moreover, this mechanism supports the formation of characteristic elementary excitations, which we investigate here theoretically in a two-dimensional Rydberg lattice gas. We explore their properties as a function of interaction strength and range, and illustrate how they can be experimentally probed via sideband spectroscopy. Here, we show that the transition rate to certain delocalized superposition states of elementary excitations displays collective many-body enhancement.