Vortex line of spin-orbit coupled Fermi superfluid through BCS to BEC Crossover

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Abstract

Superfluid Fermi gases with spin-orbit interaction provides a unique opportunity to investigate possible effects of strong interaction in a topological superfluid. It has been suggested that with addition of Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling, a two-component Fermi gas with strong s-wave interaction can become a topological superfluid with zero-energy bound state at the core of the vortex. In this talk, I discuss the evolution of vortex structure in a spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas through the BCS-BEC crossover within Bogoliubov-de Genne formalism. We find that the largest critical current occurs in the BEC side of the resonance, in contradiction to the usual crossover without spin-orbit coupling where it occurs at unitarity. Furthermore, we discuss the core structure of the vortex by calculating the spin and density distribution around the vortex.

*Department of Physics and Centre of Theoretical and Computational Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Authors

  • Juan Yao

    • The Univ of Hong Kong
  • Shizhong Zhang

    • The Univ of Hong Kong