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Dynamical coupling between matter and gauge fields underlies the emergence of many exotic particle-like excitations in condensed matter and high energy physics. An important stepping stone to simulate this physics in atomic quantum gases…

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We analyze the electron dynamics in corrugated layers of transition-metal dichalcogenides. Due to the strong spin-orbit coupling, the intrinsic (Gaussian) curvature leads to an emergent gauge field associated with the Berry connection of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Hector Ochoa , Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We present a scheme to generate an artificial gauge field for the system of neutral bosons, represented by polaritons in micropillars arranged into a square lattice. The splitting between the two polarizations of the micropillars breaks the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 R. Banerjee , T. C. H. Liew , O. Kyriienko

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

We present the experimental generation of large effective magnetic fields for ultracold atoms using photon-assisted tunneling in an optical superlattice. The underlying method does not rely on the internal structure of the atoms and…

We examine the formation of vortices during the nonequilibrium relaxation of a high-temperature initial state of an Abelian-Higgs system. We equilibrate the scalar and gauge fields using gauge-invariant Langevin equations and relax the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-19 G. J. Stephens , Luis M. A. Bettencourt , W. H. Zurek

We consider theoretically ultracold interacting bosonic atoms confined to quasi-one-dimensional ladder structures formed by optical lattices and coupled to the field of an optical cavity. The atoms can collect a spatial phase imprint during…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-03 Catalin-Mihai Halati , Ameneh Sheikhan , Corinna Kollath

We consider a two-leg boson ladder in an artificial U(1) gauge field and show that, in the presence of interleg attractive interaction, the flux induced Vortex state can be melted by dislocations. For increasing flux, instead of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-26 E. Orignac , R. Citro , M. Di Dio , S. De Palo

We study the dynamics of a vortex in a quasi two-dimensional Bose gas consisting of light matter coupled atoms forming two-component pseudo spins. The gas is subject to a density dependent gauge potential, hence governed by an interacting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-24 Salvatore Butera , Manuel Valiente , Patrik Öhberg

A symmetric anti-parallel quantum pair of vortices is simulated using the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevski equations. The initial development before cores interact directly demonstrates the traditional vortex dynamics of stretching,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-09-22 Robert M. Kerr

We develop a theory of artificial gauge fields in photon fluids for the cases of both second-order and third-order optical nonlinearities. This applies to weak excitations in the presence of pump fields carrying orbital angular momentum,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-03 N. Westerberg , C. Maitland , D. Faccio , K. Wilson , P. Öhberg , E. M. Wright

A modified method is presented to generate artificial magnetic turbulence that is used for test-particle simulations. Such turbulent fields are obtained from the superposition of a set of wave modes with random polarizations and random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 R. C. Tautz , A. Dosch

We present a simple mechanism to produce vortices at any desired spatial locations in harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with multicomponent spin states coupled to external transverse and axial magnetic fields. The…

Holographic superconductors have been studied so far in the absence of dynamical electromagnetic fields, namely in the limit in which they coincide with holographic superfluids. It is possible, however, to introduce dynamical gauge fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Oriol Domènech , Marc Montull , Alex Pomarol , Alberto Salvio , Pedro J. Silva

We propose a method to measure the normal fraction of a two-dimensional Bose gas, a quantity that generally differs from the non-condensed fraction. The idea is based on applying a spatially oscillating artificial gauge field to the atoms.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 Iacopo Carusotto , Yvan Castin

It is shown that diffraction of Bose-Einstein condensates on a helical light grating results in vortices in the condensate. Helical light gratings can be produced by light interference of a Gaussian laser beam with a helical one.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kestutis Staliunas

Artificial gauge fields open up burgeoning opportunities for wave engineering in different disciplines. So far,previous works have mostly focused on synthesizing spatial gauge fields, where the pseudo-magnetic fields lie at the heart of…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-25 Yucheng Lai , Yongliang Zhang , Kai Chang

The study of the properties of quantum particles in a periodic potential subject to a magnetic field is an active area of research both in physics and mathematics; it has been and it is still deeply investigated. In this review we discuss…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-08 Michele Burrello , Luca Lepori , Simone Paganelli , Andrea Trombettoni

A technique for vortex creation in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates is suggested: Vortices can be excited at the edge of a condensate and guided to the center by a laser beam moving along a spiral trajectory. Numerical simulations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Kestutis Staliunas

We propose that an artificial electromagnetic field can be engineered in the context of cold fermionic atoms that are coupled to a cavity mode via two-photon processes in a two-dimensional optical lattice. There is a standing-wave pump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Xiaoyong Guo , Yu Chen , Jian Liu