Date of Award
8-2016
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Physics & Astronomy
First Advisor
Chris H. Greene
Committee Chair
Chris H. Greene
Committee Member 1
Erica Carlson
Committee Member 2
Yong P. Chen
Committee Member 3
Francis Robicheaux
Abstract
Two-body scattering constitutes one of the most fundamental processes in various physical systems ranging from ultracold dilute quantum gases to energetic quark- gluon plasmas. In this dissertation, we study the low-energy atomic collision physics in the presence of synthetic gauge fields, which are generated by atom-light interaction. One category of synthetic gauge fields is the artificial spin-orbit coupling. We discuss three different aspects in scattering theory: ultracold collision, scattering resonance, and bound state formation from a few-body perspective when the atomic spin states are coupled with their center-of-mass motion. The understanding of the spin-orbit effects on the modification of the scattering processes not only builds the foundation of collision physics in the presence of non-abelian gauge fields but also paves the way towards unraveling the few-body correlations in many-body systems.
Recommended Citation
Wang, Su-Ju, "Ultracold quantum scattering in the presence of synthetic spin-orbit coupling" (2016). Open Access Dissertations. 886.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/886
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