Control of tripod-scheme cold-atom wavepackets by manipulating a non-Abelian vector potential

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2010.04.006zbMATH Open1193.81041arXiv0906.1625OpenAlexW3105503403MaRDI QIDQ986089FDOQ986089

Authors: J. Martínez 

Publication date: 11 August 2010

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Tripod-scheme cold atoms interacting with laser beams have attracted considerable interest for their role in synthesizing effective non-Abelian vector potentials. Such effective vector potentials can be exploited to realize an all-optical imprinting of geometric phases onto matter waves. By working on carefully designed extensions of our previous work, we show that coherent lattice structure of cold-atom sub-wavepackets can be formed and that the non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm effect can be easily manifested via the translational motion of cold atoms. We also show that by changing the frame of reference, effects due to a non-Abelian vector potential may be connected with a simple dynamical phase effect, and that under certain conditions it can be understood as an Abelian geometric phase in a different frame of reference. Results should help design better schemes for the control of cold-atom matter waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1625

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zbMATH Keywords

coherence lattice of cold-atom wavepacketsnon-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm effectnon-Abelian geometric phase

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Quantum control (81Q93) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

Cites Work

• Galilean noninvariance of geometric phase

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