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Stirring trapped atoms into fractional quantum Hall puddles

Quantum Gases 2009-04-15 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We theoretically explore the generation of few-body analogs of fractional quantum Hall states. We consider an array of identical few-atom clusters (n=2,3,4), each cluster trapped at the node of an optical lattice. By temporally varying the amplitude and phase of the trapping lasers, one can introduce a rotating deformation at each site. We analyze protocols for coherently transferring ground state clusters into highly correlated states, producing theoretical fidelities in excess of 99%.

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@article{arxiv.0806.1517,
  title  = {Stirring trapped atoms into fractional quantum Hall puddles},
  author = {Stefan K. Baur and Kaden R. A. Hazzard and Erich J. Mueller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1517},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures (13 subfigures) -- v2: published version

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