We study ultracold atom-ion collisions in the presence of an external magnetic field. At low collision energy the field can drastically modify the translational motion of the ion, which follows quantized cyclotron orbits. We present a rigorous theoretical approach for the calculation of quantum scattering amplitudes in these conditions. Collisions in different magnetic field regimes, identified by the size of the cyclotron radius with respect to the range of the interaction potential, are investigated. Our results are important in cases where use of a magnetic field to control the atom-ion collision dynamics is envisioned.
We investigate the quantum dynamics of neutral atoms subject to a uniform spin-dependent gauge field. In particular, we analyze a simple experimental scheme to generate the Landau quantization in a two dimensional atomic gas with internal three-level $Λ$-type configuration. We show how energy eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are obtained and discuss the experimental conditions for which a variety of physical quantities of the atomic gas can exhibit quantum oscillations.
In this letter, we propose how to measure the quantized nonlinear transport using two-dimensional ultracold atomic Fermi gases in a harmonic trap. This scheme requires successively applying two optical pulses in the left and lower half-planes and then measuring the number of extra atoms in the first quadrant. In ideal situations, this nonlinear density response to two successive pulses is quantized, and the quantization value probes the Euler characteristic of the local Fermi sea at the trap center. We investigate the practical effects in experiments, including finite pulse duration, finite ed…
Chiral Raman coupling for spin-orbit coupling in ultracold atomic gases
State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics Technologies and Devices, Institute of Opto-electronics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University(山西大学量子光学技术与器件国家重点实验室、光电研究所、极端光学协同创新中心)
Exact two-dimensional analytic wave functions for an arbitrary number $N$ of contact-interacting lowest-Landau-level (LLL) spinful fermions are derived with the use of combined numerical and symbolic computational approaches via analysis of exact Hamiltonian numerical diagonalization data. Closed-form analytic expressions are presented for two families of zero-interaction-energy states at given total angular momentum and total spin $0 \leq S \leq N/2$ in the neighborhood of the $ν=1$ filling, covering the range from the maximum density droplet to the first quasihole. Our theoretical prediction…
We analytically study the ground-state phase diagrams of ultracold bosons with various values of the effective magnetic quantum number $m$ in a state-dependent hexagonal optical lattice by using the generalized effective-potential Landau theory, where the site-offset energy between the two triangular sublattice A and B is tunable. Our analytical calculations of third-order corrections are in reasonably good agreement with the previous cluster Gutzwiller calculations. Furthermore, we reveal the reason why the regions of the Mott lobes $(n,n)$ in phase diagrams for $m=0.02$ are unexpectedly expa…
Effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman splitting and gyrotropy in two-dimensional cavity polaritons under the influence of the Landau quantization