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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
Rotating ground states of a one-dimensional spin-polarized gas of fermionic atoms with attractive p-wave interactions
1College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. girardeau@optics.arizona.edu
Abstract:
The major finding of this Letter is that a one-dimensional spin-polarized gas composed of an even number of fermionic atoms interacting via attractive p-wave interactions and confined to a mesoscopic ring has a degenerate pair of ground states that are oppositely rotating. In any realization the gas will be measured to rotate one way or the other in spite of the fact that there is no external rotation or bias fields. Our goal is to show that this counterintuitive finding is a natural consequence of the combined effects of quantum statistics, ring topology, and exchange interactions.
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