Paired Superfluidity and Fractionalized Vortices in Spin-orbit Coupled Bosons

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2011-05-28

arxiv.org/abs/1105.5700v1

Physical Review B, 84, 060508 (Rapid Communication) (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

4+2 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.060508

In this letter we study finite temperature properties of spin-1/2 interacting bosons with spin-orbit coupling in two dimensions. When the ground state has stripe order, we show that thermal fluctuations will first melt the stripe order and lead to a superfluid of boson pairs if the spin-orbit coupling is isotropic or nearly isotropic. Such a phase supports fractionalized quantum vortices. The Kosterlize-Thouless transition from superfluid to normal state is driven by proliferation of half vortices. When the ground state is a plane wave state, the transition to normal state is driven by conventional Kosterlize-Thouless transition. However, the critical temperature will drop to zero for isotropic spin-orbit coupling.

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