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Search Publications by: Ian Spielman (Fed)

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Visualizing edge states with an atomic Bose gas in the quantum Hall regime

May 19, 2016
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Ben Stuhl, Hsin I Lu, Lauren M. Aycock, Dina Genkina
We engineered a two-dimensional magnetic lattice in an elongated strip geometry, with effective per-plaquette flux $\approx4/3$ times the flux quanta. We imaged the localized edge and bulk states of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates in this strip. Further

Rashba realization: Raman with RF

May 2, 2016
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Daniel Campbell
We theoretically explore a Rashba spin-orbit coupling scheme which operates entirely in the absolute ground state manifold of an alkali atom, thereby minimizing all inelastic processes. An energy gap between ground eigenstates of the proposed coupling can

Magnetic phases of spin-1 spinorbit-coupled Bose gases

May 1, 2016
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Daniel Campbell, Ryan Price, Ana Valdes-Curiel, Andika Putra, Dimitrius Trypogeorgos
Phases of matter are characterized by order parameters describing the type and degree of order in a system. Here we experimentally explore the magnetic phases present in a near-zero temperature spin-1 spin–orbit-coupled atomic Bose gas and the quantum

Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

April 15, 2016
Author(s)
Yu-Ju Lin, Karina K. Jimenez Garcia, Ian B. Spielman
Spin-orbit (SO) coupling -- the interaction between a quantum particle's spin and its momentum -- is ubiquitous in nature, from atoms to solids. In condensed matter systems, SO coupling is crucial for the spin-Hall effect and topological insulators; it

Quantum and Classical Dynamics of BEC in a Large-Period Optical Lattice

April 4, 2016
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Johnny H. Huckans, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra, James V. Porto, William D. Phillips
We experimentally investigate diffraction of a ^u87 Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate from a 1D optical lattice. We use a range of lattice periods and timescales, including those beyond the Raman-Nath limit. We compare the results to quantum mechanical and

Direct observation of Feshbach enhanced s-wave scattering of fermions

December 17, 2015
Author(s)
Dina Genkina, Lauren M. Aycock, Hsin I Lu, Ian B. Spielman, Benjamin K. Stuhl
We directly measured the s-wave scattering cross-section of ultracold 40K atoms across the 20.2 mT Feshbach resonance by colliding pairs of degenerate Fermi gases (DFGs) and imaging the scattered atoms. Owing to DFG’s low density, few atoms scattered, even

Three-level Haldane-like model on a dice optical lattice

September 21, 2015
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, T. Andrijauskas, E. Anisimovas, M. Raciunas, A. Mekys, V. Kudriasov, G. Juzeliunas
We consider ultracold atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice of the dice geometry in a tight-binding regime. The atoms experience a laser-assisted tunneling between the nearest neighbor sites of the dice lattice accompanied by the momentum recoil. This

Gauge matters: Observing the vortex-nucleation transition in a Bose condensate

June 18, 2015
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, LeBlanc Lindsey, Karina Jimenez-Garcia, Ross Williams, Matthew Beeler, William D. Phillips
The order parameter of a quantum-coherent many-body system includes one or more phase degrees of freedom, which, owing to the phase information's relationship to velocity, can be accessed using time-of-flight (TOF) imaging. Here, trapped Bose-Einstein

Assembling a complex quantum ensemble

April 10, 2015
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman
Statistical mechanics provides a systematic approach for predicting the behavior of systems when only partial information is present. The key assumption underlying all of statistical mechanics is that every allowed configuration of the system, called a

Position-dependent spin-orbit coupling for ultracold atoms

February 18, 2015
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Shih Wei Su, Shih-Chuan Gou, Ihe-Kau Liu, Luis Santos, Arturas Acus, Algirdas Mekys, Gediminas Juzeliunas
We theoretically explore atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subject to position-dependent spin-orbit coupling (SOC). This SOC can be produced by cyclically Raman coupling four internal atomic ground (or metastable) states in an environment where the

Tunable Spin-Orbit Coupling via Strong Driving in Ultracold Atom Systems

December 12, 2014
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Lindsay J. LeBlanc, Ross A. Williams, Matthew C. Beeler, Chunlei Qu, Ming Gong, Chuanwei Zhang
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is an essential ingredient in topological materials, conventional and quantum-gas based alike. Engineered spin-orbit coupling in ultracold atom systems unique in their experimental control and measurement opportunities provides a

Light Induced Gauge Fields for Ultracold Neutral Atoms

November 14, 2014
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman
Ultracold neutral atoms, with their simple interactions along with well characterized, highly tunable system parameters, are an ideal platform for realizing and then quantitatively studying many-body phenomena. Many-body physics is perhaps most familiar in