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Thermodynamic Properties of Rashba Spin-Orbit-Coupled Fermi Gas
We investigate the thermodynamic properties of a superfluid Fermi gas subject
to Rashba spin-orbit coupling and effective Zeeman field. We adopt a T-matrix
scheme that takes beyond-mean-field effects, which are important for strongly
interacting systems, into account. We focus on the calculation of two important
quantities: the superfluid transition temperature and the isothermal
compressibility. Our calculation shows very distinct influences of the
out-of-plane and the in-plane Zeeman fields on the Fermi gas. We also confirm
that the in-plane Zeeman field induces a Fulde-Ferrell superfluid below the
critical temperature and an exotic finite-momentum pseudo-gap phase above the
critical temperature.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
Keyword Search on RDF Graphs - A Query Graph Assembly Approach
Keyword search provides ordinary users an easy-to-use interface for querying
RDF data. Given the input keywords, in this paper, we study how to assemble a
query graph that is to represent user's query intention accurately and
efficiently. Based on the input keywords, we first obtain the elementary query
graph building blocks, such as entity/class vertices and predicate edges. Then,
we formally define the query graph assembly (QGA) problem. Unfortunately, we
prove theoretically that QGA is a NP-complete problem. In order to solve that,
we design some heuristic lower bounds and propose a bipartite graph
matching-based best-first search algorithm. The algorithm's time complexity is
, where is the number of the keywords and is a
tunable parameter, i.e., the maximum number of candidate entity/class vertices
and predicate edges allowed to match each keyword. Although QGA is intractable,
both and are small in practice. Furthermore, the algorithm's time
complexity does not depend on the RDF graph size, which guarantees the good
scalability of our system in large RDF graphs. Experiments on DBpedia and
Freebase confirm the superiority of our system on both effectiveness and
efficiency
Effective p-wave interaction and topological superfluids in s-wave quantum gases
P-wave interaction in cold atoms may give rise to exotic topological
superfluids. However, the realization of p-wave interaction in cold atom system
is experimentally challenging. Here we propose a simple scheme to synthesize
effective -wave interaction in conventional -wave interacting quantum
gases. The key idea is to load atoms into spin-dependent optical lattice
potential. Using two concrete examples involving spin-1/2 fermions, we show how
the original system can be mapped into a model describing spinless fermions
with nearest neighbor p-wave interaction, whose ground state can be a
topological superfluid that supports Majorana fermions under proper conditions.
Our proposal has the advantage that it does not require spin-orbit coupling or
loading atoms onto higher orbitals, which is the key in earlier proposals to
synthesize effective -wave interaction in -wave quantum gases, and may
provide a completely new route for realizing -wave topological superfluids.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Field-induced topological pair-density wave states in a multilayer optical lattice
We study the superfluid phases of a Fermi gas in a multilayer optical lattice
system in the presence of out-of-plane Zeeman field, as well as spin-orbit (SO)
coupling. We show that the Zeeman field combined with the SO coupling leads to
exotic topological pair-density wave (PDW) phases in which different layers
possess different superfluid order parameters, even though each layer
experiences the same Zeeman field and the SO coupling. We elucidate the
mechanism of the emerging PDW phases, and characterize their topological
properties by calculating the associated Chern numbers.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev.
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