Synthetic gauge potentials for the dark state in electromagnetically induced transparency

Yu Hung Kuan^1*, Wen Te Liao^1,6, Siang Wei Shao¹, I Kang Liu², Julius Ruseckas^3,4, Gediminas Juzeliunas⁴, Yu Ju Lin⁵

¹Physics, National Central University, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
²Joint Quantum Centre Durham-Newcastle, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
³Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania
⁴Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Sauletekio 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
⁵Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
⁶Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan

* Presenter:Yu Hung Kuan, email:i2083137@gmail.com

The quest of utilizing neutral particles to simulate the behaviour of charged particles in a magnetic field makes the generation of artificial magnetic field of great interest. We put forward an optical scheme to generate effective gauge potentials for stationary-light polaritons in the static laboratory frame. To demonstrate the capabilities of our approach, we present a recipe for having dark state polaritons in degenerate Landau levels. Our scheme paves a novel way towards a versatile quantum simulator for mimicking different Hamiltonians and the investigation of the bosonic analogue of the fractional quantum Hall effect by electromagnetically induced transparency.

Keywords: Atom-Molecular Optical Physics, Quantum optics