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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 47, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/47/16/161001
Keywords
spin-orbit coupling; two-atom system; energy spectrum
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- National Science Foundation [PHY-1205443]
- Institute for Nuclear Theory during program INT-14-1, 'Universality in Few-Body Systems: Theoretical Challenges and New Directions'
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Ultracold atomic gases provide a novel platform with which to study spin-orbit coupling, a mechanism that plays a central role in the nuclear shell model, atomic fine structure and two-dimensional electron gases. This paper introduces a theoretical framework that allows for the efficient determination of the eigenenergies and eigenstates of a harmonically trapped two-atom system with short-range interaction subject to an equal mixture of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling created through Raman coupling of atomic hyperfine states. Energy spectra for experimentally relevant parameter combinations are presented and future extensions of the approach are discussed.
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