Manifestation of a non-abelian gauge field in a p-type semiconductor   system
  Gauge theories, while describing fundamental interactions in nature, also emerge in a wide variety of physical systems. Abelian gauge fields have been predicted and observed in a number of novel quantum many-body systems, topological insulators, ultracold atoms and many others. However, the non-abelian gauge field, while playing the most fundamental role in particle physics, up to now has remained a purely theoretical construction in many-body physics. In the present paper we report the first observation of a non-abelian gauge field in a spin-orbit coupled quantum system. The gauge field manifests itself in quantum magnetic oscillations of a hole doped two-dimensional (2D) GaAs heterostructure. Transport measurements were performed in tilted magnetic fields, where the effect of the emergent non-abelian gauge field was controlled by the components of the magnetic field in the 2D plane. 
T. Li, L.A. Yeoh, A. Srinivasan, O. Klochan, D.A. Ritchie, M.Y.   Simmons, O.P. Sushkov, and A.R Hamilton
cond-mat.mes-hall