Artificial Gauge Field Engineered Excited-State Topology: Control of Dynamical Evolution of Localized Spinons

TL;DR

This paper introduces an artificial gauge field approach to create and manipulate localized spinons in quantum spin models, enabling direct visualization and control of their dynamics and braiding, with potential experimental realization in Rydberg atoms.

Contribution

It presents a novel method to engineer and control excited-state spinons using artificial gauge fields, allowing for their visualization and dynamical manipulation.

Findings

First direct visualization of localized bulk spinons.

Successful adiabatic braiding of spinons using time-dependent gauge fields.

Feasibility demonstrated in Rydberg atom systems.

Abstract

Spinons are elementary excitations at the core of frustrated quantum magnets. Although it is well-established that a pair of spinons can emerge from a magnon via deconfinement, controlled manipulation of individual spinons and direct observation of their deconfinement remain elusive. We propose an artificial gauge field scenario that enables the engineering of specific excited states in quantum spin models. This generates spatially localized individual spinons with high controllability. By applying time-dependent gauge fields, we realize adiabatic braiding of these spinons, as well as their dynamical evolution in a controllable manner. These results not only provide the first direct visualization of individual spinons localized in the bulk, but also point to new possibilities to simulate their confinement process. Finally, we demonstrate the feasibility of our scenario in Rydberg atoms, which suggests an experimentally viable direction--gauge field engineering of correlated phenomena in excited states.