Abigail R. Perry
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Physical Review Letters | 2009
Yu-Ju Lin; Robert L. Compton; Abigail R. Perry; William D. Phillips; J. V. Porto; I. B. Spielman
We use a two-photon dressing field to create an effective vector gauge potential for Bose-Einstein-condensed 87Rb atoms in the F=1 hyperfine ground state. These Raman-dressed states are spin and momentum superpositions, and we adiabatically load the atoms into the lowest energy dressed state. The effective Hamiltonian of these neutral atoms is like that of charged particles in a uniform magnetic vector potential whose magnitude is set by the strength and detuning of the Raman coupling. The spin and momentum decomposition of the dressed states reveals the strength of the effective vector potential, and our measurements agree quantitatively with a simple single-particle model. While the uniform effective vector potential described here corresponds to zero magnetic field, our technique can be extended to nonuniform vector potentials, giving nonzero effective magnetic fields.
Physical Review Letters | 2012
Karina Jimenez-Garcia; Lindsay J. LeBlanc; Ross Williams; Matthew Beeler; Abigail R. Perry; I. B. Spielman
Artificial gauge fields open the possibility to realize quantum many-body systems with ultracold atoms, by engineering Hamiltonians usually associated with electronic systems. In the presence of a periodic potential, artificial gauge fields may bring ultracold atoms closer to the quantum Hall regime. Here, we describe a one-dimensional lattice derived purely from effective Zeeman shifts resulting from a combination of Raman coupling and radio-frequency magnetic fields. In this lattice, the tunneling matrix element is generally complex. We control both the amplitude and the phase of this tunneling parameter, experimentally realizing the Peierls substitution for ultracold neutral atoms.
Physical Review A | 2009
Yu-Ju Lin; Abigail R. Perry; Robert L. Compton; I. B. Spielman; J. V. Porto
We describe an apparatus for quickly and simply producing
New Journal of Physics | 2013
Lindsay J. LeBlanc; Matthew Beeler; Karina Jimenez-Garcia; Abigail R. Perry; Seiji Sugawa; Ross Williams; I. B. Spielman
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Science | 2012
Ross Williams; Lindsay J. LeBlanc; Karina Jimenez-Garcia; Matthew Beeler; Abigail R. Perry; William D. Phillips; I. B. Spielman
Bose-Einstein condensates. It is based on a magnetic quadrupole trap and a red detuned optical dipole trap. We collect atoms in a magneto-optical trap (MOT) and then capture the atom in a magnetic quadrupole trap and force rf evaporation. We then transfer the resulting cold, dense cloud into a spatially mode-matched optical dipole trap by lowering the quadrupole field gradient to below gravity. This technique combines the efficient capture of atoms from a MOT into a magnetic trap with the rapid evaporation of optical dipole traps; the approach is insensitive to the peak quadrupole gradient and the precise trapping beam waist. Our system reliably produces a condensate with
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012
Lindsay J. LeBlanc; Karina Jimenez-Garcia; Ross Williams; Matthew Beeler; Abigail R. Perry; William D. Phillips; I. B. Spielman
N\approx2\times10^6
Science | 2018
Seiji Sugawa; Francisco Salces-Carcoba; Abigail R. Perry; Yuchen Yue; I. B. Spielman
atoms every
Applied Physics Letters | 2017
Dong Sheng; Abigail R. Perry; Sean P. Krzyzewski; Shawn Geller; John Kitching; Svenja Knappe
16\second
Optics & Photonics News | 2012
Ross Williams; Lindsay J. LeBlanc; Karina Jimenez-Garcia; Matthew Beeler; Abigail R. Perry; William Phillips; I. B. Spielman
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series | 2011
William D. Phillips; Y-J Lin; Robert L. Compton; Karina Jimenez-Garcia; Abigail R. Perry; J. V. Porto; I. B. Spielman
Zitterbewegung, a force-free trembling motion first predicted for relativistic fermions like electrons, was an unexpected consequence of the Dirac equations unification of quantum mechanics and special relativity. Though the oscillatory motions large frequency and small amplitude have precluded its measurement with electrons, zitterbewegung is observable via quantum simulation. We engineered an environment for 87Rb Bose–Einstein condensates where the constituent atoms behaved like relativistic particles subject to the one-dimensional Dirac equation. With direct imaging, we observed the sub-micrometre trembling motion of these clouds, demonstrating the utility of neutral ultracold quantum gases for simulating Dirac particles.