On the left: a hexagonal array of atoms (red balls with small arrows arranged in the xy plane) in a magnetic field (big arrow in the z direction). On the right: the energy levels of each atom: black bar on the bottom denoting the ground state, dashed black line denoting the frequency of atomic transition, and two bars denoting excited states: red bar below the dashed line and blue bar above the dashed line. The distance between the dashed line and each of the bar is mu*B. Each of the excited states is connected with the ground state with double-sided arrow in respective colour, denoting the fact that it can absorb and emit circularly polarized light (red and blue correspond to opposite circular polarizations).The figure comes from the following paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.023603
Fractional quantum Hall states in atom arrays
Our second approach to create a topological order in atom arrays is to focus on a different kind of topological order: fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. These were first discovered in condensed matter. It is […]
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