Optical Kagome Lattice for Ultracold Atoms with Nearest Neighbor Interactions
Optical Kagome Lattice for Ultracold Atoms with Nearest Neighbor Interactions
We propose a scheme to implement an optical kagome lattice for ultracold atoms with controllable $s$-wave interactions between nearest neighbor sites and a gauge potential. The atoms occupy three different internal atomic levels with electromagnetically induced coupling between the levels. We show that by appropriately shifting the triangular lattice potentials, …