Toward Fractional Quantum Hall Physics with Cold Atoms

Abstract

Viewpoint on Nigel R. Cooper and Jean Dalibard, "Reaching Fractional Quantum Hall States with Optical Flux Lattices", Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185301 (2013), and N. Y. Yao, A. V. Gorshkov, C. R. Laumann, A. M. L\"auchli, J. Ye, and M. D. Lukin, "Realizing Fractional Chern Insulators in Dipolar Spin Systems", Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 185302 (2013). Researchers propose new ways to recreate fractional quantum Hall physics using ultracold atoms and molecules.