Spin-orbit coupled Bose gases

Quantum simulation is a very active and growing field. Various quantum systems can be used to emulate existing materials in an accurate and controllable way, as well as to generate new states of matter that have not been found in the real world but the existence of which does not contradict the fundamental laws of physics. Ultracold atoms form a perfect system to realize idealized models and study physical mechanisms that stand out clearly in them. Recent efforts have been made to simulate artificial gauge fields with ultracold atoms, including spin-dependent gauge fields, such as spin-orbit coupling. Motivated by this goal our lab explored several approaches to generate a one-dimensional spinorbit coupling interaction, which has a rich phase diagram and plays an important role for topological insulators, the quantum spin Hall effect and spintronics.

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Doctoral

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Shteynas, Boris.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Wolfgang Ketterle.

• Physics.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127720

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127720