Electromagnetically induced transparency in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate.

Abstract

The artificial field can be generated by properly arranging pulsed magnetic fields interacting with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), which can be widely used to simulate the phenomena of traditional condensed matter physics, such as spin-orbit (SO) coupling and the neutral atom spin Hall effect. The introduction of SO coupling in a BEC will alter its optical properties. Eletromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a powerful tool that can change and detect the properties of an atomic medium in a nondestructive way. It is important and interesting to study EIT properties and to investigate the effects of SO coupling on EIT. In this paper, we investigate EIT in a SO-coupled BEC. Not only is the transparency existing, but the real and imaginary parts of the susceptibility have an additional red frequency shift, which is linearly proportional to the strength of the SO coupling. By using this unconventional, sensitive EIT spectrum, SO coupling can be detected and its strength can be accurately measured according to the frequency shift.