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Raman dressed Bose-Einstein Condensates: artificial gauge fields, spin-orbit coupling and negative mass hydrodynamics

Peter Engels, Washington State University
Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
PAT C-520

Dilute-gas Bose Einstein condensates (BECs) are an extremely versatile tool for the investigation of quantum phenomena. BECs provide a unique access to the quantum world leading to new insights into a broad range of areas including atomic physics, quantum optics, condensed matter physics, and quantum computation, to name a few. In this talk, I will discuss our experiments focusing on Raman dressing of BEC which makes it possible to generate artificial gauge fields and spin-orbit coupling, two prominent topics from condensed-matter physics. I will highlight key results obtained by applying these techniques to problems from nonlinear dynamics. For example, we have generated dispersion relations featuring a roton-like minimum and a region of negative effective mass, leading to peculiar quantum hydrodynamic behavior.

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