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Px+ipy superfluid from s-wave interactions of fermionic cold atoms

  • Chuanwei Zhang
  • , Sumanta Tewari
  • , Roman M. Lutchyn
  • , S. Das Sarma

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Abstract

Two-dimensional (px+ipy) superfluids or 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+ipy 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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number160401
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume101
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 17 2008

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