Optical detection of a fractional particle number in an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas
Optical detection of a fractional particle number in an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas
We consider 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 the particle number fractionalization in a dilute atomic gas.
fermion systems, light scattering, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, optical solitons, electromagnetic fields, measurement theory, quasiparticles
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Javanainen, Juha
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Ruostekoski, Janne
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October 2003
Javanainen, Juha
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Ruostekoski, Janne
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Javanainen, Juha and Ruostekoski, Janne
(2003)
Optical detection of a fractional particle number in an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas.
Physical Review Letters, 91 (15), .
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.150404).
Abstract
We consider 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 the particle number fractionalization in a dilute atomic gas.
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Published date: October 2003
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fermion systems, light scattering, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, optical solitons, electromagnetic fields, measurement theory, quasiparticles
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/29353
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