Coherent collective dynamics and entanglement evolution of polar molecules on 1D lattices

Abstract

We study a LiCs strongly-interacting molecular gas loaded into an one-dimensional optical lattice at quarter filling. The molecules are in the lowest electronic and vibrational state, $X^{1}Σ$ ($ν=0$). Due to the large intermolecular distance and low filling, dipole-dipole interaction in the nearest-neighbor approximation governs the dynamics of the rotational excitations. For low DC electric field strengths, the full set of rotational levels $N=0,1$ must be taken into account, nevertheless, our calculations show that very weak fields act as field-selectors disclosing two- and three-level systems out of the original four-level one. The dynamics and the generated von Neumann entanglement entropy among the internal rotational states throughout the evolution are presented for low, moderate and strong fields . We observe a sharp and monotonous growth of the entanglement as the dynamics take place showing the potential of these molecular systems to be used in quantum information protocols. The numerical simulations are performed by means of the Time-Evolving Block Decimation algorithm based on the Matrix Product State formalism and the Susuki-Trotter decomposition.