Practical scheme for a light-induced gauge field in an atomic Bose gas

Details Practical scheme for a light-induced gauge field in an atomic Bose gas Practical scheme for a light-induced gauge field in an atomic Bose gas

2008-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/0811.3961v2

Phys. Rev. A 79, 011604(R) (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.79.011604

We propose a scheme to generate an Abelian gauge field in an atomic gas using two crossed laser beams. If the internal atomic state follows adiabatically the eigenstates of the atom-laser interaction, Berry's phase gives rise to a vector potential that can nucleate vortices in a Bose gas. The present scheme operates even for a large detuning with respect to the atomic resonance, making it applicable to alkali-metal atoms without significant heating due to spontaneous emission. We test the validity of the adiabatic approximation by integrating the set of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations associated with the various internal atomic states, and we show that the steady state of the interacting gas indeed exhibits a vortex lattice, as expected from the adiabatic gauge field.

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