부산대학교 도서관

Recently, a new generation of experiments with ultracold quantum gases has emerged where the many-body properties are probed and manipulated using ultra-narrow “clock” transitions. We describe here our experimental project, which aims at engineering a special kind of optical lattice realizing an effective magnetic field coupling to the atomic motion - the Hofstadter optical lattice. Our specific experimental scheme uses the ultra-narrow optical transition linking the ground state to a metastable excited state of 174 Ytterbium atoms. We present the current status of the experiment, including the observation of coherent Rabi oscillations between the ground and excited states.