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SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 127, Issue 2, Pages 155-162Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-1098(03)00314-4
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anyons; cold atomic gases; fractional quantum Hall effect
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We study the physics of a rapidly rotating gas of ultracold bosonic atoms. In the limit of very rapid rotation of the trap the system exhibits a fractional quantum Hall regime analogous to that of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall effect. We show that the ground state of the system is a 1/2-Laughlin liquid, a highly correlated atomic liquid. Exotic excitations consisting of localized quasiholes of 1/2 of an atom can be created by focusing lasers at the desired positions. We show how to manipulate these quasiholes in order to probe directly their 1/2-statistics. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
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