Probing Majorana fermions in spin-orbit-coupled atomic Fermi gases

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Xia Ji ^a   Jiang, Lei ^b   Pu, Han ^b   Hu, Hui ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FERMI GAS; CORE DENSITIES; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; FERMI GAS; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATE; MAJORANA; MIXED PHASE; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; TRAPPED GAS; ULTRA-COLD; VORTEX CORES; ZEEMAN FIELDS;

ATOMS; ELECTRON GAS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; TOPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

FERMIONS;

EID: 84863116167     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.021603     Document Type: Article

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