Optical detection of fractional particle number in an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas

Details Optical detection of fractional particle number in an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas Optical detection of fractional particle number in an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas

2003-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308113v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 150404

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, to appear in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.150404

We study theoretically a Fermi-Dirac atomic gas in a one-dimensional optical lattice coupled to a coherent electromagnetic field with a topologically nontrivial soliton phase profile. We argue that the resulting fractional eigenvalues of the particle number operator can be detected via light scattering. This could be a truly quantum mechanical measurement of the particle number fractionalization in a dilute atomic gas.

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