Geometric squeezing into the lowest Landau level
Abstract
The equivalence between neutral particles under rotation and charged particles in a magnetic field relates phenomena as diverse as spinning atomic nuclei, weather patterns, and the quantum Hall effect. In their quantum descriptions, translations along different directions do not commute, implying a Heisenberg uncertainty relation between spatial coordinates. Here, we exploit the ability to squeeze non-commuting variables to dynamically create a Bose-Einstein condensate occupying a single Landau gauge wavefunction in the lowest Landau level. We directly resolve the extent of the zero-point cyclotron orbits, and demonstrate geometric squeezing of the orbits' guiding centers by more than dB below the standard quantum limit. The condensate attains an angular momentum of more than per particle, and an interatomic distance comparable to the size of the cyclotron orbits. This offers a new route towards strongly correlated fluids and bosonic quantum Hall states.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1911.12347,
title = {Geometric squeezing into the lowest Landau level},
author = {Richard J. Fletcher and Airlia Shaffer and Cedric C. Wilson and Parth B. Patel and Zhenjie Yan and Valentin Crépel and Biswaroop Mukherjee and Martin W. Zwierlein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.12347},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures and Supplementary Materials of 8 pages, 4 figures