Artificial magnetism and spin-orbit coupling for ultra cold atoms

  • Event Date: 2015-03-24
  • AMO/QIS/CMT
  • Speaker: Prof. Gediminas Juzeliūnas (Vilnius Univ., Lithuania)  /  Host:
    Place: P512 of NCTS, 5F, 3rd General Building, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.

Abstract
In the initial part of the talk we shall provide a background materialon artificial magnetic field and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold atoms. Currently these areamongst the most active areas of research for ultracold atomic gases [1-4]. Subsequently we shall discuss some recent developments, including magnetically-generated SOC [5], spin-orbit coupled bilayer Bose-Einstein condensates [6], effects due to position-dependent SOC [7], as well as a possibility to simulate an artificial magnetic flux in optical lattices via an involvement of synthetic dimensions [8].
[1] J. Dalibard, F. Gerbier, G.Juzeliūnas, and P.Ohberg, Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 1523 (2011).
[2] V. Galitski and I.B. Spielman, Nature 494, 49 (2013).
[3] N. Goldman, G. Juzeliūnas, P. Ohberg, and I. B. Spielman, Rep. Prog. Phys. 77, 126401 (2014).
[4] H. Zhai, Rep. Progr. Phys. 78, 026001 (2015).
[5] B. M. Anderson, I. B. Spielman, and G. Juzeliūnas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 125301 (2013).
[6] Q. Sun, L. Wen, W. M. Liu, G. Juzeliūnas and A. C. Ji arXiv:1403.4338 (to appear in Phys. Rev. A).
[7] S. W. Su et al., arXiv:1411.7813 (to appear in New J. Phys.).
[8] A. Celi et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 043001 (2014).
 

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