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$p_{x}+ip_{y}$ superfluid from s-wave interactions of fermionic cold atoms

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

Two-dimensional (px+ipyp_{x}+ip_{y}) superfluids/superconductors offer a playground for studying intriguing physics such as quantum teleportation, non-Abelian statistics, and topological quantum computation. Creating such a superfluid in cold fermionic atom optical traps using p-wave Feshbach resonance is turning out to be challenging. Here we propose a method to create a px+ipyp_{x}+ip_{y} superfluid directly from an s-wave interaction making use of a topological Berry phase, which can be artificially generated. We discuss ways to detect the spontaneous Hall mass current, which acts as a diagnostic for the chiral p-wave superfluid.

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@article{arxiv.0805.4203,
  title  = {$p_{x}+ip_{y}$ superfluid from s-wave interactions of fermionic cold atoms},
  author = {Chuanwei Zhang and Sumanta Tewari and Roman Lutchyn and S. Das Sarma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4203},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure