Confinement and Zitterbewegung in a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate with a spatially localized Raman coupling

摘要

Artificial spin-orbit coupling has been successfully implemented in many atomic experiments by so-called Raman addressing, and various interesting phenomena have already been investigated in such spin-orbit-coupled atomic systems. In this paper, we study spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates addressed by spatially localized Raman lasers. The localized Raman coupling effectively generates a spatial inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling. The ground states of this system are spatially confined into the localization region. We excite Zitterbewegung dynamics by an experimentally realizable quench. By making advantage of Zitterbewegung, we propose to implement an atomic device to control over atoms. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.