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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 102, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.046402
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- ONR [ONR-N000140610122]
- NSF [DMR-0547875]
- SWAN-NRI
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We propose an experimental scheme to observe spin-orbit coupling effects of a two-dimensional Fermi atomic gas cloud by coupling its internal electronic states (pseudospins) to radiation in a Lambda configuration. The induced spin-orbit coupling can be of the Dresselhaus and Rashba type with a Zeeman term. We show that the optically induced spin-orbit coupling can lead to a spin-dependent effective mass under appropriate conditions with one of them able to be tuned between positive and negative effective masses. As a direct observable we show that in the expansion dynamics of the atomic cloud the initial atomic cloud splits into two clouds for the positive effective mass case regime, and into four clouds for the negative effective mass regime.
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