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We present a systematic theoretical study of the BCS-BEC crossover problem in three-dimensional atomic Fermi gases at zero temperature with a spherical spin-orbit coupling which can be generated by a synthetic non-Abelian gauge field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-13 Lianyi He , Xu-Guang Huang

We use the Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism to analyze the ground state phases of harmonically trapped two-species fermion mixtures with unequal masses. In the weakly attracting limit and around unitarity, we find that the superfluid order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-10-29 M. Iskin , C. J. Williams

We theoretically predict an exotic topological superfluid state with spatially modulated pairing gap in one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled Fermi gases. This inhomogeneous topological superfluidity is induced by applying simultaneously a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-07 Chun Chen

We investigated effects of a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the condensed density and superfluid density tensor of a two-component Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover at zero temperature. In anisotropic three dimensions (3D), we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-30 Kezhao Zhou , Zhidong Zhang

We investigate theoretically BEC-BCS crossover physics in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a system of two-component Fermi gas with and without a Zeeman field that breaks the population balance between the two components. A…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-26 Lei Jiang , Xia-Ji Liu , Hui Hu , Han Pu

We theoretically analyze the pairing instability of a three-dimensional ultracold atomic Fermi gas towards a Fulde-Ferrell superfluid, in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in-plane Zeeman field. We use the standard Thouless…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-15 Xia-Ji Liu

The interplay of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting in ultracold Fermi gases gives rise to a topological superfluid phase in two spatial dimensions that can host exotic Majorana excitations. Theoretical models have so far been based…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-15 J. Brand , L. A. Toikka , U. Zülicke

We theoretically investigate the collective modes of imbalanced two component one-dimensional Fermi gases with attractive interactions. This is done for trapped and untrapped systems both at zero and non-zero temperature, using…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-21 Jonathan M. Edge , N. R. Cooper

We investigate the zero-temperature properties of a quasi-ideal Fermi gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We find that the spin-orbit term strongly affects the speeds of zero sound and first sound in the Fermi gas, due to the presence of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-06-03 Luca Salasnich

We investigate the collective oscillations in the BCS-BEC crossover region of a trapped Fermi superfluid at T=0. We explicitly include the effect of a Feshbach resonance, which leads to a tunable pairing interaction adjusted by the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoji Ohashi , Allan Griffin

The recent experimental realization of spin-orbit coupling for ultra-cold atoms has generated much interest in the physics of spin-orbit coupled degenerate Fermi gases. Although recently the BCS-BEC crossover in three-dimensional (3D)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-05 Gang Chen , Ming Gong , Chuanwei Zhang

We use the density matrix renormalization group method(DMRG) and the infinite time evolved block decimation method(iTEBD) to investigate the ground states of the spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas in a one dimensional optical lattice with a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-25 Y. H. Chan

We study the stability region of the topological superfluid phase in a trapped two-dimensional polarized Fermi gas with spin-orbit coupling and across a BCS-BEC crossover. Due to the competition between polarization, pairing interaction and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 J. Zhou , W. Zhang , W. Yi

We investigate Rashba spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases in square optical lattice by using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) simulations which is free of the sign-problem. We show that the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thoules phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-08-26 Ho-Kin Tang , Xiaosen Yang , Jinhua Sun , Hai-Qing Lin

Superconductivity and magnetism generally do not coexist. Changing the relative number of up and down spin electrons disrupts the basic mechanism of superconductivity, where atoms of opposite momentum and spin form Cooper pairs. Nearly…

We study how the Rashba spin-orbit interaction influences unconventional superconductivity in a two dimensional electron gas partially spin-polarized by a magnetic field. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that for all field orientations, only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-01 Ethan Lake , Caleb Webb , D. A. Pesin , O. A. Starykh

We consider the quasi-one dimensional system realized by an array of weakly coupled parallel one-dimensional "tubes" in a two-dimensional lattice which permits free motion of atoms in an axial direction in the presence of a Zeeman field,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-04 Kangjun Seo , Chuanwei Zhang , Sumanta Tewari

Spin-orbit coupling plays an increasingly important role in the modern condensed matter physics. For instance, it gives birth to topological insulators and topological superconductors. Quantum simulation of spin-orbit coupling using…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-04 Pengjun Wang , Zeng-Qiang Yu , Zhengkun Fu , Jiao Miao , Lianghui Huang , Shijie Chai , Hui Zhai , Jing Zhang

We show the spin-orbital coupling induced by an artificial light-induced gauge field can fully restore superfluidity suppressed by population imbalance in a two-dimensional (2D) Fermi gas, leading to unconventional superfluid states either…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-10-12 J. -N. Zhang , Y. -H. Chan , L. -M. Duan

We theoretically study trapped one-dimensional Fermi gases in the presence of spin-orbit coupling induced by Raman lasers. The gas changes from a conventional (non-topological) superfluid to a topological superfluid as one increases the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-05 Ran Wei , Erich J. Mueller