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Artificial gauge fields for neutral particles such as photons, recently attracted a lot of attention in various fields ranging from photonic crystals to ultracold atoms in optical lattices to optomechanical arrays. Here we point out that,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Stefan Walter , Florian Marquardt

Optical traps and lattices provide a new opportunity to study strongly correlated high spin systems with cold atoms. In this article, we review the recent progress on the hidden symmetry properties in the simplest high spin fermionic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Congjun Wu

Motivated by the recent experimental success in realizing synthetic spin-orbit coupling in ultracold atomic systems, we consider N-component atoms coupled to a non-Abelian SU(N) gauge field. More specifically, we focus on the case, referred…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-06 Ryan Barnett , G. R. Boyd , Victor Galitski

We present a scheme for generating a synthetic magnetic field and spin-orbit coupling via Raman coupling in highly magnetic lanthanide atoms such as dysprosium. Employing these atoms offer several advantages for realizing strongly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-25 Xiaoling Cui , Biao Lian , Tin-Lun Ho , Benjamin L. Lev , Hui Zhai

In this paper, I'm going to talk about the theoretical and experimental progress in studying spin-orbit coupled spin-1 bosons. Realization of spin-orbit coupled quantum gases opens a new avenue in cold atom physics. In particular, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-02 Lin Xin

The interconnection of lasers is pivotal across various research domains, from generating high-power lasers to studying out-of-equilibrium coupled systems. This paper explores our investigation into Hermitian coupling between lasers in an…

Recently, the possibility of quantum simulation of dynamical gauge fields was pointed out by using a system of cold atoms trapped on each link in an optical lattice. However, to implement exact local gauge invariance, fine-tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Ikuo Ichinose , Tetsuo Matsui

We show that $N-1$ degenerate dark states can be generated by coupling $N$-fold degenerate ground states and a common excited state with $N$ laser fields. Interferences between light waves with different frequencies can produce laser fields…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Li-Hua Lu , You-Quan Li

Artificial gauge fields open new possibilities to realize quantum many-body systems with ultracold atoms, by engineering Hamiltonians usually associated with electronic systems. In the presence of a periodic potential, artificial gauge…

The Berry curvature is a geometrical property of an energy band which can act as a momentum space magnetic field in the effective Hamiltonian of a wide range of systems. We apply the effective Hamiltonian to a spin-1/2 particle in two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-02 Hannah M. Price , Tomoki Ozawa , Nigel R. Cooper , Iacopo Carusotto

Recently, synthetic spin-orbit coupling has been introduced into cold-atom systems for more flexible control of the Hamiltonian, which was further made time-varying through two-photon detuning to achieve dynamic control of the cold-atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Dong Liu , Zejian Ren , Wai Chun Wong , Entong Zhao , Chengdong He , Ka Kwan Pak , Gyu-Boong Jo , Jensen Li

The versatile technology of cold atoms confined in optical lattices allows the creation of a vast number of lattice geometries and interactions, providing a promising platform for emulating various lattice models. This opens the possibility…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-12-18 Yuzhi Liu , Yannick Meurice , Shan-Wen Tsai

\emph{Effective} gauge fields arise in the description of the dynamics of defects in lattices of graphene in condensed matter. The interactions between neighboring nodes of a lattice/spin-network are described by the Hubbard model whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-04 Deepak Vaid

Time evolution of spin-orbit-coupled cold atoms in an optical lattice is studied, with a two-band energy spectrum having two avoided crossings. A force is applied such that the atoms experience two consecutive Landau-Zener tunnelings while…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-25 Shuang Liang , Zheng-Chun Li , Weiping Zhang , Lu Zhou , Zhihao Lan

Gauge field theories play a central role in modern physics and are at the heart of the Standard Model of elementary particles and interactions. Despite significant progress in applying classical computational techniques to simulate gauge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Zohreh Davoudi , Mohammad Hafezi , Christopher Monroe , Guido Pagano , Alireza Seif , Andrew Shaw

In this review, we discuss the physics of spin-orbit coupled quantum gases in optical lattices. After reviewing some relevant experimental techniques, we introduce the basic theoretical model and discuss some of its generic features. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-02 Shizhong Zhang , William S. Cole , Arun Paramekanti , Nandini Trivedi

We show that the adiabatic motion of ultra-cold, multi-level atoms in spatially varying laser fields can give rise to effective non-Abelian gauge fields if degenerate adiabatic eigenstates of the atom-laser interaction exist. A pair of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ruseckas , G. Juzeliunas , P. Oehberg , M. Fleischhauer

We consider response function and spin evolution in spin-orbit coupled cold atomic gases in a synthetic gauge magnetic field influencing solely the orbital motion of atoms. We demonstrate that various regimes of spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-06 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

We introduce an approach to describe quantum-coherent evolution of a system of cold atoms in an optical lattice triggered by a change in superlattice potential. Using a time-dependent mean field description, we map the problem to a strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-30 M. B. Hastings , L. S. Levitov

We review some recent progresses on the study of ultracold Fermi gases with synthetic spin-orbit coupling. In particular, we focus on the pairing superfluidity in these systems at zero temperature. Recent studies have shown that different…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-08 Wei Yi , Wei Zhang , Xiaoling Cui