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Volume 110, Number 1, April 2015
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Article Number | 10009 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/110/10009 | |
Published online | 14 May 2015 |
Artificial gauge field induced cyclotron dynamics of ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices
Key Laboratory of Atomic & Molecular Physics and Functional Materials of Gansu Province, College of Physics and Electronics Engineering, Northwest Normal University - Lanzhou 730070, PRC
Received: 16 October 2014
Accepted: 3 April 2015
We theoretically study the cyclotron dynamics of ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices exposed to an artificial magnetic field. The cyclotron orbit and its stability are discussed both analytically and numerically. We find that the cyclotron dynamics of atoms in optical lattices can be manipulated by adjusting the strength of the magnetic field. Atoms can be coherently localized in its initial position, or can be trapped in a priori prescribed orbit doing coherent cyclotron motion, or can be decoherently diffused with time. The stability of the orbit and the coherence of the system present asymmetric characters. Our results provide a direct theoretical evidence for the cyclotron dynamics of neutral atoms in the artificial magnetic field.
PACS: 03.75.Lm – Tunneling, Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vortices, and topological excitations / 03.75.Mn – Multicomponent condensates; spinor condensates / 05.45.Yv – Solitons
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