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SUBMITTER: Kim H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7047963 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Hwanmun H Zhu Guanyu G Porto J V JV Hafezi Mohammad M
Physical review letters 20180901 13
We propose an experimental scheme to construct an optical lattice where the atoms are confined to the surface of a torus. This construction can be realized with spatially shaped laser beams which could be realized with recently developed high resolution imaging techniques. We numerically study the feasibility of this proposal by calculating the tunneling strengths for atoms in the torus lattice. To illustrate the nontrivial role of topology in atomic dynamics on the torus, we study the quantized ...[more]