All-optical Imprinting of Geometric Phases onto Matter Waves
Quantum Physics
2015-05-13 v1 Quantum Gases
Abstract
Traditional optical phase imprinting of matter waves is of a dynamical nature. In this paper we show that both Abelian and non-Abelian geometric phases can be optically imprinted onto matter waves, yielding a number of interesting phenomena such as wavepacket re-directing and wavepacket splitting. In addition to their fundamental interest, our results open up new opportunities for robust optical control of matter waves.
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@article{arxiv.0904.0310,
title = {All-optical Imprinting of Geometric Phases onto Matter Waves},
author = {Qi Zhang and Jiangbin Gong and C. H. Oh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.0310},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. A