Optically synthesized magnetic field

When charged particles move in a magnetic field, gauge potentials arise and the effective Hamiltonian has a term containing the vector potential, A. Neutral atoms can also behave like charged particles if the container in rotated in a trapping magnetic fields. But recently, an optically synthesized magnetic field has been created where the neutral atoms experience an effective gauge potential without any rotation, similar to the case of charged particles in an electromagnetic field.

Please look at the following reference for details:

(1) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/nature08609.html

(2) http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v102/i13/e130401

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30th CNLS Annual conference at SANTA FE, NM

The 30th CNLS Annual Conference, http://cnls.lanl.gov/ultralow/, was organized on 'COMPLEXITY and DISORDER at ULTRA-LOW TEMPERATURES' in La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM from June 21-25, 2010. A lot of strange and impossible-looking things happen at ultra-low temperatures, including the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC). There were a lot of nice oral and poster presentations in the program by the physicists from all around the world. I also presented a poster in the program.

DAMOP2010 at Houston, Texas

DAMOP2010, http://damop2010.rice.edu/, was organized in Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, Texas from May 25-29, 2010. There were a lot of interesting presentations - oral and poster both, several exciting activities, including some activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invention of LASER. In fact, the discovery of LASER has drastically changed the science and technology and the world as a whole. The LASER has found its applications in diverse fields. In fact, one can rarely find a field of science and technology where there is no presence/use of a LASER in one form or another. Atomic, molecular and optical physics is one of the major fields which has gotten a tremendous advantage from the discovery of LASER. In fact, the first observation of a BOSE-Einstein Condensate (BEC) became possible in 1995, after about 70 years of its prediction by Einstein, because of the development of the technique of cooling atoms using a laser.

There were thousands of atomic, molecular and optical physicists, including several Nobel Laureates in the fields.

I also presented by current research in the meeting http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DAMOP10/Event/126565.