Creating artificial magnetic fields for cold atoms by photon-assisted tunneling

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Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2011

Идентификатор DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/93/20003

Аннотация: This paper proposes a simple setup for introducing an artificial magnetic field for neutral atoms in 2D optical lattices. This setup is based on the phenomenon of photon-assisted tunneling and involves a low-frequency periodic driving of the optical lattice. This low-frequency driving does not affect the electronic structure of theПоказать полностьюatom and can be easily realized by the same means which are employed to create the lattice. We also address the problem of detecting this effective magnetic field. In particular, we study the center-of-mass wave packet dynamics, which is shown to exhibit certain features of cyclotron dynamics of a classical charged particle. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2011

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Журнал: EPL

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 93, Is. 2

ISSN журнала: 02955075

Место издания: MULHOUSE

Издатель: EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

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