Tunable gauge potential for spinless particles in driven lattices

Publisher: Edp Sciences

E-ISSN: 2100-014x|57|issue|01004-01004

ISSN: 2100-014x

Source: EPJ Web of Conference, Vol.57, Iss.issue, 2013-08, pp. : 01004-01004

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Abstract

We present a universal method to create a tunable, artificial vector gauge potential for neutral particles trapped in an optical lattice. A suitable periodic shaking of the lattice allows to engineer a Peierls phase for the hopping parameters. This scheme thus allows one to address the atomic internal degrees of freedom independently. We experimentally demonstrate the realisation of such artificial potentials in a 1D lattice, which generate ground state superfluids at arbitrary non-zero quasimomentum [4].