Spatially varying interactions induced in ultra-cold atoms by optical Feshbach resonance

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2011.11.037zbMATH Open1255.81245arXiv1101.2217OpenAlexW1551162403MaRDI QIDQ1933167FDOQ1933167

Authors: Chih-Chun Chien 

Publication date: 22 January 2013

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Optical Feshbach resonance is capable of inducing spatially varying interactions in ultra-cold atoms. Its applications to pancake-shaped clouds of bosons and fermions enable one to study several fresh phenomena. We examine possibilities of inducing counter-intuitive structures such as creating a superfluid enclave inside a Mott insulator for bosons and a normal-gas core enclosed by a superfluid shell for fermions. We discuss feasible experimental setups and signatures of those interesting structures, which can be very different from common structures observed in experiments so far. While a superfluid enclave in a Mott insulator can be useful for constructing atomic devices for atomtronics, superconducting islands observed in scanning-tunneling microscopy of heavily underdoped high-temperature superconductors may be studied with cold Fermi gases with spatially varying attractions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2217

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Molecular physics (81V55) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Ion traps (78A37) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

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