Effects of an optically induced non-Abelian gauge field in cold atoms
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چکیده
We show that N−1 degenerate dark states can be generated by coupling N-fold degenerate ground states and a common excited state with N laser fields. Interferences between light waves with different frequencies can produce laser fields with time-dependent amplitudes, which can induce not only U N non-Abelian vector fields but also the scalar ones for the adiabatic motion of atoms in such laser fields. As an example, a time-periodic gauge potential is produced by applying specific laser fields to a tripod system. Some features of the Landau levels and the ground-state phase diagram of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate for a concrete gauge field are also discussed.
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