Comment on "Creating artificial magnetic fields for cold atoms by photon-assisted tunneling" by Kolovsky A.R

TL;DR

This paper provides a brief commentary on a proposed scheme for generating synthetic gauge fields in cold atoms using photon-assisted tunneling, discussing its implications and potential limitations.

Contribution

It offers critical insights and analysis of the photon-assisted tunneling scheme for creating artificial magnetic fields in cold atom systems.

Findings

Highlights potential advantages of the scheme

Identifies possible limitations and challenges

Suggests directions for future research

Abstract

We comment briefly on the scheme proposed in EPL 93, 20003 (2011) to produce synthetic gauge fields by means of photon-assisted tunneling.