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Artificial Gauge Fields with Laser-Assisted Tunneling

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In ultracold-atom setups the physics of charged particles in magnetic fields cannot be simulated directly because of the charge neutrality of the atoms. Therefore new experimental methods had to be developed to circumvent this limitation by designing effective systems whose dynamics are governed by a Hamiltonian analog to the one of a charged particle in a magnetic field. Many realizations are based on periodically driven systems that can be mapped onto effective time-independent Hamiltonians which exhibit the desired physical properties. The general formalism is summarized in this chapter. In the end it focuses on the laser-assisted tunneling technique, which is used for the experimental results described in the context of this thesis.

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Aidelsburger, M. (2016). Artificial Gauge Fields with Laser-Assisted Tunneling. In: Artificial Gauge Fields with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25829-4_3

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