2004/02/29 by Gediminas Juzeliūnas, G. Juzeliunas, Patrik Öhberg +1 · 191 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Angular momentum #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Atomic physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Degenerate energy levels #Electron #Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope #Fermi gas #Fermion #Magnetic field #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #cond-mat.soft #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.93.033602
published in Physical Review Letters 93(3), 033602 (American Physical Society) · Slightly updated. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 033602 (2004)
openalex publication_date 2004/07/14 · arxiv created 2004/09/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We investigate the effect of slow light propagating in a degenerate atomic Fermi gas. In particular we use slow light with an orbital angular momentum. We present a microscopic theory for the interplay between light and matter and show how the slow light can provide an effective magnetic field acting on the electrically neutral fermions, a direct analogy of the free electron gas in an uniform magnetic field. As an example we illustrate how the corresponding de Haas-van Alphen effect can be seen in a gas of neutral atomic fermions.