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Observation of a superfluid Hall effect

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Author(s)

Lindsay J. LeBlanc, Karina K. Jimenez Garcia, Ross A. Williams, Matthew C. Beeler, Abigail R. Perry, William D. Phillips, Ian B. Spielman

Abstract

Measurement techniques based upon the Hall effect are essential tools in condensed matter physics. Here, we report the first observation of a Hall effect in an ultracold gas of neutral atoms, revealed by measuring Bose-Einstein condensate's transport properties perpendicular to a synthetic magnetic field. Our observations in this vortex-free superfluid are in good agreement with those predicted by superfluid hydrodynamics, demonstrating that the system's global irrotationality influences this superfluid Hall signal.
Citation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume
109
Issue
27
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

artificial vector potentials, Bose-Einstein condensation, Hall effect, superfluid hydrodynamics, synthetic magnetic fields

Citation

LeBlanc, L. , Jimenez, K. , Williams, R. , Beeler, M. , Perry, A. , Phillips, W. and Spielman, I. (2012), Observation of a superfluid Hall effect, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Accessed October 21, 2025)

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Created July 3, 2012, Updated February 19, 2017
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