Counterflow of spontaneous mass currents in trapped spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases

Details Counterflow of spontaneous mass currents in trapped spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases Counterflow of spontaneous mass currents in trapped spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases

2011-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/1112.4468v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

4 pages with 3 figures

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We use the Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism and study the ground-state phases of trapped spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases in two dimensions. Our main finding is that the presence of a symmetric (Rashba type) spin-orbit coupling spontaneously induces counterflowing mass currents in the vicinity of the trap edge, i.e. $\uparrow$ and $\downarrow$ particles circulate in opposite directions with equal speed. These currents flow even in noninteracting systems, but their strength decreases toward the molecular BEC limit, which can be achieved either by increasing the spin-orbit coupling or the interaction strength. These currents are also quite robust against the effects of asymmetric spin-orbit couplings in $x$ and $y$ directions, gradually reducing to zero as the spin-orbit coupling becomes one dimensional. We compare our results with those of chiral p-wave superfluids/superconductors.

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