Photon-Induced Spin-Orbit Coupling in Ultracold Atoms inside Optical Cavity
Quantum Gases
2015-05-28 v2
Abstract
We consider an atom inside a ring cavity, where a plane-wave cavity field together with an external coherent laser beam induces a two-photon Raman transition between two hyperfine ground states of the atom. This cavity-assisted Raman transition induces effective coupling between atom's internal degrees of freedom and its center-of-mass motion. In~the meantime, atomic dynamics exerts a back-action to cavity photons. We investigate the properties of this system by adopting a mean-field and a full quantum approach, and show that the interplay between the atomic dynamics and the cavity field gives rise to intriguing nonlinear phenomena.
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@article{arxiv.1504.01729,
title = {Photon-Induced Spin-Orbit Coupling in Ultracold Atoms inside Optical Cavity},
author = {Lin Dong and Chuanzhou Zhu and Han Pu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01729},
year = {2015}
}
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12 pages, 5 figures, and published version