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The Local Spin Structure of Large Spin Fermions

Quantum Gases 2015-06-18 v2

Abstract

We show that large spin fermions have very rich spin structures. The local spin order of a spin-ff Fermi gas is a linear combination of 2f2f (particle-hole) angular momentum states, L=1,..,2fL=1,..,2f. L=1,2L=1, 2 represent ferromagnetic and nematic spin order, while L3L\geq 3 are higher spin orders that has no analog in spin-1/2 systems. Each LL spin sector is characterized as LL pairs of antipodal points on a sphere. Model calculations show that some of these spin-orders have the symmetry of Platonic solid, and many of them have non-abelian line defects.

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@article{arxiv.1401.4513,
  title  = {The Local Spin Structure of Large Spin Fermions},
  author = {Tin-Lun Ho and Biao Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.4513},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, Two figures, improved presentation, accepted for publication in PRA