Phonon-induced artificial magnetic fields Export

@article{citeulike:3125653, abstract = {We investigate the effect of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate on a system of immersed impurity atoms trapped by an optical lattice. We analytically show that for a one-dimensional, ring-shaped setup the coupling of the impurities to the Bogoliubov phonons of the condensate leads to a non-trivial phase in the impurity hopping. The presence of this phase can be tested by observing a drift in the transport properties of the impurities. These results are quantitatively confirmed by a numerically exact simulation of a two-mode Bose-Hubbard model. We also give analytical expressions for the occurring phase terms for a two-dimensional setup. The phase realises an artificial magnetic field and can for instance be used for the simulation of the quantum Hall effect using atoms in an optical lattice.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Klein, Alexander and Jaksch, Dieter}, citeulike-article-id = {3125653}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1898}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.1898}, day = {14}, eprint = {0808.1898}, keywords = {bose-einstein, condensate, magnetic, phonon, physics, quantum}, month = {Aug}, posted-at = {2008-08-15 15:07:06}, priority = {1}, title = {Phonon-induced artificial magnetic fields}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1898}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3125653 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3125653 N2 - We investigate the effect of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate on a system of immersed impurity atoms trapped by an optical lattice. We analytically show that for a one-dimensional, ring-shaped setup the coupling of the impurities to the Bogoliubov phonons of the condensate leads to a non-trivial phase in the impurity hopping. The presence of this phase can be tested by observing a drift in the transport properties of the impurities. These results are quantitatively confirmed by a numerically exact simulation of a two-mode Bose-Hubbard model. We also give analytical expressions for the occurring phase terms for a two-dimensional setup. The phase realises an artificial magnetic field and can for instance be used for the simulation of the quantum Hall effect using atoms in an optical lattice. TI - Phonon-induced artificial magnetic fields KW - bose-einstein KW - condensate KW - magnetic KW - phonon KW - physics KW - quantum AU - Klein, Alexander AU - Jaksch, Dieter PY - 2008/Aug/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1898 ER -