All-optical Imprinting of Geometric Phases onto Matter Waves

Abstract

Traditional optical phase imprinting of matter waves is of a dynamical nature. In this paper we show that both Abelian and non-Abelian geometric phases can be optically imprinted onto matter waves, yielding a number of interesting phenomena such as wavepacket re-directing and wavepacket splitting. In addition to their fundamental interest, our results open up new opportunities for robust optical control of matter waves.

5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. A

References in corpus (5)

• Non-Abelian gauge potentials for ultra-cold atoms with degenerate dark states
• Observing Zitterbewegung in Ultracold Atoms
• Effective magnetic fields in degenerate atomic gases induced by light beams with orbital angular momenta
• Double and negative reflection of cold atoms in non-Abelian gauge potentials
• Vortex pump for dilute Bose-Einstein condensates

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Fractional Quantum Hall states in the vicinity of Mott plateaus
• Driven Dirac-like Equation via Mirror Oscillation: Controlled Cold-Atom Zitterbewegung
• Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling in Two-level Cold Atoms
• Control of Tripod-Scheme Cold-Atom Wavepackets by Manipulating a non-Abelian Vector Potential