Atom-optically synthetic gauge fields for a noninteracting Bose gas

• 作者: Yuqing Li Jiahui Zhang Yunfei Wang Huiying Du Jizhou Wu Wenliang Liu Feng Mei Jie Ma Liantuan Xiao Suotang Jia
• 来源期刊: 光：科学与应用（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: Articles
• 页码范围: 304-310
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Synthetic gauge fields in synthetic dimensions are now of great interest. This concept provides a convenient manner for exploring topological phases of matter. Here, we report on the first experimental realization of an atom-optically synthetic gauge field based on the synthetic momentum-state lattice of a Bose gas of 133Cs atoms, where magnetically controlled Feshbach resonance is used to tune the interacting lattice into noninteracting regime. Specifically, we engineer a noninteracting one-dimensional lattice into a two-leg ladder with tunable synthetic gauge fields. We observe the flux-dependent populations of atoms and measure the gauge field-induced chiral currents in the two legs. We also show that an inhomogeneous gauge field could control the atomic transport in the ladder. Our results lay the groundwork for using a clean noninteracting synthetic momentum-state lattice to study the gauge field- induced topological physics.