2008/05/31 by Chuanwei Zhang, Sumanta Tewari, Roman Lutchyn +2 · 392 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithm #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Combinatorics #Computer science #Condensed matter physics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum computer #Quantum mechanics #Superfluidity #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Topology (electrical circuits) #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.str-el #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.160401
published in Physical Review Letters 101(16), 160401 (American Physical Society) · 4 pages, 1 figure
openalex publication_date 2008/10/17 · arxiv created 2008/10/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Two-dimensional (p(x)+ip(y)) superfluids or superconductors offer a playground for studying intriguing physics such as quantum teleportation, non-Abelian statistics, and topological quantum computation. Creating such a superfluid in cold fermionic atom optical traps using p-wave Feshbach resonance is turning out to be challenging. Here we propose a method to create a p(x)+ip(y) superfluid directly from an s-wave interaction making use of a topological Berry phase, which can be artificially generated. We discuss ways to detect the spontaneous Hall mass current, which acts as a diagnostic for the chiral p-wave superfluid.