Xin-Ding Zhang et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 043031 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/4/043031
Detecting unambiguously non-Abelian geometric phases with trapped ions
Xin-Ding Zhang1, Z D Wang2, Liang-Bin Hu1, Zhi-Ming Zhang3 and Shi-Liang Zhu1,2,4
Show affiliationsWe propose an experimentally feasible scheme to disclose the noncommutative effects induced by a light-induced non-Abelian gauge structure with trapped ions. Under an appropriate configuration, a true non-Abelian gauge potential naturally arises in connection with the geometric phase associated with two degenerated dark states in a four-state atomic system interacting with three pulsed laser fields. We show that the population in the atomic state at the end of a composed path formed by two closed loops C1 and C2 in the parameter space can be significantly different from the composed counter-ordered path. This population difference is directly induced by the noncommutative feature of non-Abelian geometric phases and can be detected unambiguously with current technology.
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Issue 4 (April 2008)
Received 5 October 2007
Published 15 April 2008
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Detecting unambiguously non-Abelian geometric phases with trapped ions
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