Spin transport in a tunable Heisenberg model realized with ultracold atoms

Understand

Simple models of interacting spins play an important role in physics.

• They capture the properties of many magnetic materials, but also extend to other systems, such as bosons and fermions in a lattice, systems with gauge fields, high-Tc superconductors, and systems with exotic particles such as anyons and Majorana fermions.
• In order to study and compare these models, a versatile platform is needed.
• Realizing such a system has been a long-standing goal in the field of ultracold atoms.