Seeing Majorana fermions in time-of-flight images of staggered spinless fermions coupled by s-wave pairing

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pachos, Jiannis K ^a   Alba, Emilio ^b   Lahtinen, Ville ^c,d   Garcia Ripoll, Juan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL   (Spain)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL; FINITE TEMPERATURES; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; SPINLESS FERMION; TIME OF FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS; TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS; TOPOLOGICAL MODELS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VORTEX FLOW; WINDING;

SHEAR WAVES;

EID: 84880620500     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.88.013622     Document Type: Article

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