arXiv · 0904.0310
All-optical Imprinting of Geometric Phases onto Matter Waves
Abstract
Traditional optical phase imprinting of matter waves is of a dynamical nature. In this paper we show that both Abelian and non-Abelian geometric phases can be optically imprinted onto matter waves, yielding a number of interesting phenomena such as wavepacket re-directing and wavepacket splitting. In addition to their fundamental interest, our results open up new opportunities for robust optical control of matter waves.
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Qi Zhang, Jiangbin Gong, C. H. Oh. 2009-04-02. All-optical Imprinting of Geometric Phases onto Matter Waves. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.79.043632
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