Aharonov-Casher Chern bands for ultracold dark state atoms
Abstract
We consider the Aharonov-Casher (AC) condition for ultracold atoms adiabatically following the dark-state in a Λ-type atom-light coupling scheme. The AC condition establishes a relation between the geometric scalar potential and the synthetic magnetic field, resulting in a fully degenerate lowest Landau-level-like band in the adiabatic limit even if the magnetic field is inhomogeneous but has a proper sign. We derive a general requirement for the atom-light coupling under which the AC condition applies. The requirement holds if the Rabi frequencies of the Λ scheme are superpositions of plane waves with the appropriate amplitudes and phases. In particular, the Rabi frequencies made of N=3, 4, 6 fine tuned plane waves yield a smooth background magnetic field of definite sign, as well as an array of non-measurable Aharonov-Bohm flux singularities. Departing from the fine tuning, the latter singularities turn into narrow subwavelength patches of the magnetic field with an opposite sign, which broaden the lowest energy band. The lowest band is also broadened for the fine tuned situation due to deviation from the adiabatic approach because of the finite atom-light coupling strength. It is shown that a proper combination of the two imperfections (departure from fine tuning and finite atom-light coupling strength) can lead to a significant reduction of the width of the lowest band, which can be made almost completely flat and furthermore becomes characterized by a nearly perfect geometry needed for simulating the fractional Hall states.
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BibTeX
@misc{burba2026aharonovcasher,
title = {{Aharonov-Casher Chern bands for ultracold dark state atoms}},
author = {Domantas Burba and Dominykas Borodinas and Gediminas Juzeliūnas},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.00207},
eprint = {2606.00207},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00207},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Aharonov-Casher Chern bands for ultracold dark state atoms
AU - Domantas Burba
AU - Dominykas Borodinas
AU - Gediminas Juzeliūnas
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/06
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.00207
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00207
AB - We consider the Aharonov-Casher (AC) condition for ultracold atoms adiabatically following the dark-state in a Λ-type atom-light coupling scheme. The AC condition establishes a relation between the geometric scalar potential and the synthetic magnetic field, resulting in a fully degenerate lowest Landau-level-like band in the adiabatic limit even if the magnetic field is inhomogeneous but has a proper sign. We derive a general requirement for the atom-light coupling under which the AC condition applies. The requirement holds if the Rabi frequencies of the Λ scheme are superpositions of plane waves with the appropriate amplitudes and phases. In particular, the Rabi frequencies made of N=3, 4, 6 fine tuned plane waves yield a smooth background magnetic field of definite sign, as well as an array of non-measurable Aharonov-Bohm flux singularities. Departing from the fine tuning, the latter singularities turn into narrow subwavelength patches of the magnetic field with an opposite sign, which broaden the lowest energy band. The lowest band is also broadened for the fine tuned situation due to deviation from the adiabatic approach because of the finite atom-light coupling strength. It is shown that a proper combination of the two imperfections (departure from fine tuning and finite atom-light coupling strength) can lead to a significant reduction of the width of the lowest band, which can be made almost completely flat and furthermore becomes characterized by a nearly perfect geometry needed for simulating the fractional Hall states.
ER -