TY - CHAP
T1 - Synthetic Spin-Orbit-Coupling in Ultracold Atomic Gases and Topological Superfluids
AU - Qu, Chunlei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Inspired by the discovery of topological insulating and topological superconducting states in electronic solid-state materials, there has been a significant research progress in the last few years towards the observation of various topological phenomena in other controllable quantum systems. Ultracold atomic gases hold great promise for the exploration of topological condensed matter physics due to their unprecedented controllability and the absence of disorder. This chapter reviews some aspects of the recent developments of topological physics in ultracold atomic gases. Specifically, we will discuss the experimental realization of one-dimensional synthetic spin-orbit-coupling in ultracold neutral atoms, the ground state and low-energy collective excitations of the spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate, and the appearance of Majorana quasi-particles in a spin-orbit-coupled Fermi gas.
AB - Inspired by the discovery of topological insulating and topological superconducting states in electronic solid-state materials, there has been a significant research progress in the last few years towards the observation of various topological phenomena in other controllable quantum systems. Ultracold atomic gases hold great promise for the exploration of topological condensed matter physics due to their unprecedented controllability and the absence of disorder. This chapter reviews some aspects of the recent developments of topological physics in ultracold atomic gases. Specifically, we will discuss the experimental realization of one-dimensional synthetic spin-orbit-coupling in ultracold neutral atoms, the ground state and low-energy collective excitations of the spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate, and the appearance of Majorana quasi-particles in a spin-orbit-coupled Fermi gas.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-93460-6_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-93460-6_11
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85140790349
T3 - Topics in Applied Physics
SP - 345
EP - 362
BT - Topics in Applied Physics
ER -