Geometric effects in the effective-mass theory and topological optical superlattices
Abstract
Cold atoms tailored by an optical lattice have become a fascinating arena for simulating quantum physics. In this area, one important and challenging problem is creating effective spin-orbit coupling (SOC), especially for fashioning a cold atomic gas into a topological phase, for which prevailing approaches mainly rely on the Raman coupling between the atomic internal states and a laser field. Herein, a strategy for realizing effective SOC is proposed by exploiting the geometric effects in the effective-mass theory, without resorting to internal atomic states. Furthermore, it is shown that the geometry of Bloch states can have nontrivial effects on the wave-mechanical states under external fields, leading to effective SOC and an effective Darwin term, which have been neglected in the standard effective-mass approximation. It is demonstrated that these relativisticlike effects can be employed to introduce effective SOC in a two-dimensional optical superlattice, and induce a nontrivial topological phase.
- Authors:
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- Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Peking Univ., Beijing (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1614565
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1480152
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG03-02ER45958
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Optics; Physics; Cold atoms & matter waves; Impurities; Spin-orbit coupling; Synthetic gauge fields; Topological phases of matter
Citation Formats
Li, Chao-Kai, Niu, Qian, and Feng, Ji. Geometric effects in the effective-mass theory and topological optical superlattices. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/physreva.98.041603.
Li, Chao-Kai, Niu, Qian, & Feng, Ji. Geometric effects in the effective-mass theory and topological optical superlattices. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.98.041603
Li, Chao-Kai, Niu, Qian, and Feng, Ji. 2018.
"Geometric effects in the effective-mass theory and topological optical superlattices". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.98.041603. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1614565.
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abstractNote = {Cold atoms tailored by an optical lattice have become a fascinating arena for simulating quantum physics. In this area, one important and challenging problem is creating effective spin-orbit coupling (SOC), especially for fashioning a cold atomic gas into a topological phase, for which prevailing approaches mainly rely on the Raman coupling between the atomic internal states and a laser field. Herein, a strategy for realizing effective SOC is proposed by exploiting the geometric effects in the effective-mass theory, without resorting to internal atomic states. Furthermore, it is shown that the geometry of Bloch states can have nontrivial effects on the wave-mechanical states under external fields, leading to effective SOC and an effective Darwin term, which have been neglected in the standard effective-mass approximation. It is demonstrated that these relativisticlike effects can be employed to introduce effective SOC in a two-dimensional optical superlattice, and induce a nontrivial topological phase.},
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