Protocol to engineer Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov states in a cold Fermi gas

Authors
Mueller, Erich J 

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Abstract

We propose a two-step experimental protocol to directly engineer Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) states in a cold two-component Fermi gas loaded into a quasi-one-dimensional trap. First, one uses phase imprinting to create a train of domain walls in a superfluid with equal number of - and -spins. Second, one applies a radio-frequency sweep to selectively break Cooper pairs near the domain walls and transfer the -spins to a third spin state which does not interact with the - and -spins. The resulting FFLO state has exactly one unpaired -spin in each domain wall and is stable for all values of domain-wall separation and interaction strength. We show that the protocol can be implemented with high fidelity at sufficiently strong interactions for a wide range of parameters available in present-day experimental conditions.

Publication Date
2017
Online Publication Date
2017-08-14
Acceptance Date
2017-07-20
Keywords
cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.supr-con
Journal Title
PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Journal ISSN
2469-9926
2469-9934
Volume Title
96
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
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Publisher's own licence
Sponsorship
National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-1508300