Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids

Abstract

We study the orbital angular momentum (OAM) $L_z$ in two dimensional chiral $(p_x+i{p}_y{)}^{\nu }$-wave superfluids (SF) of $N$ fermions on a disc at zero temperature, in terms of spectral asymmetry and spectral flow. It is shown that $L_z=\nu N/2$ for any integer $\nu$, in the BEC regime. In contrast, in the BCS limit, while the OAM is $L_z=N/2$ for the $p+ip$-wave SF, for chiral SF with $\nu \ge 2$, the OAM is remarkably suppressed as $L_z=N\times O({\Delta }_0/{\epsilon }_F)\ll N$, where ${\Delta }_0$ is the gap amplitude and ${\epsilon }_F$ is the Fermi energy. We demonstrate that the difference between the $p+ip$-wave SF and the other chiral SFs in the BCS regimes originates from the nature of edge modes and related depairing effects.

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