Searching for Majorana fermions in 2D spin-orbit coupled Fermi superfluids at finite temperature

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Gong, Ming ^a,b   Chen, Gang ^b,c   Jia, Suotang ^c   Zhang, Chuanwei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD ATOMS; FERMI GAS; FERMI SUPERFLUIDS; FINITE TEMPERATURES; MAJORANA; PARAMETER REGIONS; PHASE FLUCTUATION; QUASIPARTICLE ENERGY; SPIN ORBITS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; TWO-DIMENSION; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

ELECTRON GAS; TOPOLOGY;

FERMIONS;

EID: 84866072581     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.105302     Document Type: Article

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