Interplay between Rashba spin-orbit coupling and adiabatic rotation in a two-dimensional Fermi gas
arXiv:1608.07110 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.95.013601
Abstract
We explore the trap profiles of a two-dimensional atomic Fermi gas in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit coupling and under an adiabatic rotation. We first consider a non-interacting gas and show that the competition between the effects of Rashba coupling on the local density of single-particle states and the Coriolis effects caused by rotation gives rise to a characteristic ring-shaped density profile that survives at experimentally-accessible temperatures. Furthermore, Rashba splitting of the Landau levels takes the density profiles on a ziggurat shape in the rapid-rotation limit. We then consider an interacting gas under the BCS mean-field approximation for local pairing, and study the pair-breaking mechanism that is induced by the Coriolis effects on superfluidity, where we calculate the critical rotation frequencies both for the onset of pair breaking and for the complete destruction of superfluidity in the system. In particular, by comparing the results of fully-quantum-mechanical Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach with those of semi-classical local-density approximation, we construct extensive phase diagrams for a wide-range of parameter regimes in the trap where the aforementioned competition may, e.g., favor an outer normal edge that is completely phase separated from the central superfluid core by vacuum.
18 pages with 18 figures; to appear in PRA
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