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Itinerant chiral ferromagnetism in a trapped Rashba spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas
How ferromagnetic phases emerge in itinerant systems is an outstanding
problem in quantum magnetism. Here we consider a repulsive two-component Fermi
gas confined in a two dimensional isotropic harmonic potential and subject to a
large Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling, whose single-particle dispersion can be
tailored by adjusting the SO coupling strength. We show that the interplay
among SO coupling, correlation effects and mean-field repulsion leads to a
competition between ferromagnetic and non-magnetic phases. At intermediate
interaction strengths, ferromagnetic phase emerges which can be well described
by the mean-field Hartree-Fock theory; whereas at strong interaction strengths,
a strongly correlated non-magnetic phase is favored due to the
beyond-mean-field quantum correlation effects. Furthermore, the ferromagnetic
phase of this system possesses a chiral current density induced by the Rashba
spin-orbit coupling, whose experimental signature is investigated.Comment: Main text: 5 pages, 6 figures; Supplement: 4 pages, 2 figure
Tuning a magnetic Feshbach resonance with spatially modulated laser light
We theoretically investigate the control of a magnetic Feshbach resonance
using a bound-to-bound molecular transition driven by spatially modulated laser
light. Due to the spatially periodic coupling between the ground and excited
molecular states, there exists a band structure of bound states, which can
uniquely be characterized by some extra bumps in radio-frequency spectroscopy.
With the increasing of coupling strength, the series of bound states will cross
zero energy and directly result in a number of scattering resonances, whose
position and width can be conveniently tuned by the coupling strength of the
laser light and the applied magnetic field (i.e., the detuning of the ground
molecular state). In the presence of the modulated laser light, universal
two-body bound states near zero-energy threshold still exist. However, compared
with the case without modulation, the regime for such universal states is
usually small. An unified formula which embodies the influence of the modulated
coupling on the resonance width is given. The spatially modulated coupling also
implies a local spatially varying interaction between atoms. Our work proposes
a practical way of optically controlling interatomic interactions with high
spatial resolution and negligible atomic loss.Comment: 9pages, 5figur
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