U(3) artificial gauge fields for cold atoms

• Main Authors: Hu, Yu-Xin, Miniatura, Christian, Wilkowski, David, Grémaud, Benoît
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105050; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20411
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We propose to generate an artificial non-Abelian U(3) gauge field by using a two-tripod scheme, namely, two tripod configurations sharing a common ground-state level and driven by resonant one-photon transitions. Using an appropriate combination of four Laguerre-Gauss and two Hermite-Gauss laser bea...