Many body population trapping in ultracold dipolar gases

A system of interacting dipoles is of paramount importance for understanding many-body physics. The interaction between dipoles is anisotropic and long-range . While the former allows one to observe rich effects due to different geometries of the system, long-range ( ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/1367-2630/16/5/052002/njp496021ieqn1.gif] {$1/{{r}^{3}}$} ) interactions lead to strong correlations between dipoles and frustration. In effect, interacting dipoles in a lattice form a paradigmatic system with strong correlations and exotic properties with possible applications in quantum information technologies, and as quantum simulators of condensed matter physics, material science, etc. Notably, such a system is extremely difficult to model due to a proliferation of interaction induced multi-band excitations for sufficiently strong dipole−dipole interactions. In this article we develop a consistent theoretical model of interacting polar molecules in a lattice by applying the concepts and ideas of ionization theory which allows us to include highly excited Bloch bands. Additionally, by involving concepts from quantum optics (population trapping), we show that one can induce frustration and engineer exotic states, such as Majumdar–Ghosh state, or vector-chiral states in such a system.