Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 80, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.045602
Keywords
atom-photon collisions; dark states; laser cooling; rubidium
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- Hong Kong RGC [600908]
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We propose a scheme to realize Zitterbewegung (ZB) with cold atoms in an Abelian vector potential. Two dark states can be created by interacting alkali-metal atoms with three coaxial Gaussian beams. Atoms moving in the subspace spanned by the two dark states feel a vector gauge potential that is nonvanishing only along the laser axis. We show that cold atoms in this Abelian vector potential undergo ZB with a large amplitude detectable in experiment.
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