Optical detection of fractional particle number in an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas.
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We study theoretically a Fermi-Dirac atomic gas in a one-dimensional optical lattice coupled to a coherent electromagnetic field with a topologically nontrivial soliton phase profile. We argue that the resulting fractional eigenvalues of the particle number operator can be detected via light scattering. This could be a truly quantum mechanical measurement of particle number fractionalization in a dilute atomic gas.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 91 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003