Optical detection of a fractional particle number in an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas

Javanainen, Juha and Ruostekoski, Janne (2003) Optical detection of a fractional particle number in an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas. Physical review letters, 91 (15): 150404. ISSN 1079-7114

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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.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physical review letters
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3100
Subjects:
?? fermion systemslight scatteringeigenvalues and eigenfunctionsoptical solitonselectromagnetic fieldsmeasurement theoryquasiparticlesgeneral physics and astronomyphysics and astronomy(all) ??
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123691
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Deposited On:
26 Feb 2018 10:26
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Yes
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Published
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