Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-05-09
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 195303 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
5 pages, 4 figures, final published version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.195303
We investigate the BCS-BEC crossover in three dimensional degenerate Fermi gases in the presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Zeeman field. We show that the superfluid order parameter destroyed by a large Zeeman field can be restored by the SOC. With increasing strengths of the Zeeman field, there is a series of topological quantum phase transitions from a non-topological superfluid state with fully gapped fermionic spectrum to a topological superfluid state with four topologically protected Fermi points (i.e., nodes in the quasiparticle excitation gap) and then to a second topological superfluid state with only two topologically protected Fermi points. The quasiparticle excitations near the Fermi points realize the long-sought low-temperature analog of Weyl fermions of particle physics. We show that the topological phase transitions can be probed using the experimentally realized momentum resolved photoemission spectroscopy.
Gong Ming
Tewari Sumanta
Zhang Chuanwei
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