Affiliation:
1. MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Research Laboratory of Electronics, and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Abstract
A spinning quantum gas
Ultracold atomic gases are very good at simulating electrons in solids but lack one essential party trick: charge. Their neutrality makes it challenging to simulate phenomena such as the quantum Hall effect, which, in the case of charged electrons, is easily induced by an external magnetic field. One way to produce a similar effect in a neutral system is to rotate it, but achieving the equivalent of strong magnetic fields remains difficult. Fletcher
et al.
rotated a gas of trapped sodium atoms, reaching a state in which the gas could be described by a single lowest Landau-level wave-function. The system is expected to be a testbed for studying the behavior of strongly interacting many-body states.
Science
, aba7202, this issue p.
1318
Funder
National Science Foundation
Office of Naval Research
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Division of Physics
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Army Research Office
Defense Sciences Office, DARPA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
Naval Research
National Science Foundation Center for Ultracold Atoms Award
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Cited by
28 articles.
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