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SUBMITTER: Luo X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4707438 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Luo Xinyu X Wu Lingna L Chen Jiyao J Guan Qing Q Gao Kuiyi K Xu Zhi-Fang ZF You L L Wang Ruquan R
Scientific reports 20160111
We report the observation of synthesized spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold spin-1 (87)Rb atoms. Different from earlier experiments where a one dimensional (1D) atomic SOC of pseudo-spin-1/2 is synthesized with Raman laser fields, the scheme we demonstrate employs a gradient magnetic field (GMF) and ground-state atoms, thus is immune to atomic spontaneous emission. The strength of SOC we realize can be tuned by changing the modulation amplitude of the GMF, and the effect of the SOC is confi ...[more]