Engineering Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling for cold atoms in a double tripod configuration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7950, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Juzeliunas, G ^a   Ruseckas, J ^a   Campbell, D L ^b   Spielman, I B ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

light induced gauge potentials; Rashba Dresselhaus spin orbit coupling; Ultracold atoms

Indexed keywords

ALKALI ATOMS; BORN-OPPENHEIMER APPROXIMATION; COLD ATOMS; COLLISIONAL RELAXATION; COUPLED STATE; EIGENSTATES; ELECTRONIC GROUND STATE; HYPERFINE STATE; INTERNAL STATE; LASER INDUCED; LIGHT COUPLINGS; NUCLEAR SPINS; RABI FREQUENCY; RAMAN TRANSITION; RASHBA-DRESSELHAUS SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING; SPIN STATE; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; TWO-STATE; ULTRACOLD ATOMS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; GAGES; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; ORBITS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 79952975196     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.874137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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