Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-08-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
8 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
In presence of a synthetic non-Abelian gauge field that induces a Rashba like spin-orbit interaction, a collection of weakly interacting fermions undergoes a crossover from a BCS ground state to a BEC ground state when the strength of the gauge field is increased [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 84}, 014512 (2011)]. The BEC that is obtained at large gauge coupling strengths is a condensate of tightly bound bosonic fermion-pairs whose properties are solely determined by the Rashba gauge field -- hence called rashbons. In this paper, we conduct a systematic study of the properties of rashbons and their dispersion. This study reveals a new qualitative aspect of the problem of interacting fermions in non-Abelian gauge fields, i.e., that the rashbon state induced by the gauge field for small centre of mass momenta of the fermions ceases to exist when this momentum exceeds a critical value which is of the order of the gauge coupling strength. The study allows us to estimate the transition temperature of the rashbon BEC, and suggests a route to enhance the exponentially small transition temperature of the system with a fixed weak attraction to the order of the Fermi temperature by tuning the strength of the non-Abelian gauge field. The nature of the rashbon dispersion, and in particular the absence of the rashbon states at large momenta, suggests a regime of parameter space where the normal state of the system will be a dynamical mixture of uncondensed rashbons and unpaired helical fermions. Such a state should show many novel features including pseudogap physics.
Shenoy Vijay B.
Vyasanakere Jayantha P.
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