Probing Atomic Majorana Fermions in Optical Lattices
Quantum Gases
2015-06-03 v2 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We introduce a one-dimensional system of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice whose phase diagram includes topological states of different symmetry classes. These states can be identified by their zero-energy edge modes which are Majorana fermions. We propose several universal methods of detecting the Majorana edge states, based on their genuine features: zero-energy, localized character of the wave functions, and induced non-local fermionic correlations.
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@article{arxiv.1201.3253,
title = {Probing Atomic Majorana Fermions in Optical Lattices},
author = {Christina V. Kraus and Sebastian Diehl and Peter Zoller and Mikhail A. Baranov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3253},
year = {2015}
}
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