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Confinement and lattice quantum-electrodynamic electric flux tubes simulated with ultracold atoms
- Source :
- Physical Review Letters
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- We propose a method for simulating $(2+1)\mathrm{D}$ compact lattice quantum-electrodynamics, using ultracold atoms in optical lattices. In our model local Bose-Einstein condensates' (BECs) phases correspond to the electromagnetic vector potential, and the local number operators represent the conjugate electric field. The well-known gauge-invariant Kogut-Susskind Hamiltonian is obtained as an effective low-energy theory. The field is then coupled to external static charges. We show that in the strong coupling limit this gives rise to ``electric flux tubes'' and to confinement. This can be observed by measuring the local density deviations of the BECs, and is expected to hold even, to some extent, outside the perturbative calculable regime.
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases
Physics
Condensed matter physics
010308 nuclear & particles physics
High Energy Physics::Lattice
Lattice field theory
General Physics and Astronomy
Electric flux
01 natural sciences
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Ultracold atom
Quantum electrodynamics
Electric field
Lattice gauge theory
0103 physical sciences
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Quantum field theory
010306 general physics
Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics)
Vector potential
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Details
- ISSN :
- 10797114 and 00319007
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....54e9c1185922a20084ee29954fe44e1a
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.275301