Multiply quantized vortices in fermionic superfluids: angular momentum, unpaired fermions, and spectral asymmetry

Abstract

We compute the orbital angular momentum $L_z$ of an s-wave paired superfluid in the presence of an axisymmetric multiply quantized vortex. For vortices with winding number $|k|>1$, we find that in the weak-pairing BCS regime $L_z$ is significantly reduced from its value $\hslash Nk/2$ in the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) regime, where $N$ is the total number of fermions. This deviation results from the presence of unpaired fermions in the BCS ground state, which arise as a consequence of spectral flow along the vortex sub-gap states. We support our results analytically and numerically by solving the Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equations within the weak-pairing BCS regime.

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