  Standard optical potentials use off-resonant laser standing wave induced
AC-Stark shift. In a recent development [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 117}, 233001
(2016)] a three-level scheme in $\Lambda$ configuration coupled coherently by
resonant laser fields was introduced leading to an effective lattice with
subwavelength potential peaks. Here as an extension of that work to a four
level atomic setup in the tripod configuration is used to create spin
$1/2$-like two-dimensional dark-space with 1D motion and the presence of
external gauge fields. Most interestingly for a possible application, the
lifetime for a dark subspace motion is up to two orders of magnitude larger
than for a similar $\Lambda$ system. The model is quite flexible leading to
lattices with significant nearest, next-nearest, or next-next-nearest hopping
rates, $J_1,J_2,J_3$ opening up new intriguing possibilities to study, e.g.
frustrated systems. The characteristic Wannier functions lead also to new type
of inter-site interactions not realizable in typical optical lattices.
