Abstract

Traditional optical phase imprinting of matter waves is of a dynamical nature. Here we show that both Abelian and non-Abelian geometric phases can be optically imprinted onto matter waves, yielding a number of interesting phenomena such as wave-packet redirecting and wave-packet splitting. In addition to their fundamental interest, our results open up opportunities for robust optical control of matter waves.

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