Topological phase transition in the quench dynamics of a one-dimensional Fermi gas

We study the quench dynamics of a one-dimensional ultracold Fermi gas in an optical lattice potential with synthetic spin-orbit coupling. At equilibrium, the ground state of the system can undergo a topological phase transition and become a topological superfluid with Majorana edge states. As the interaction is quenched near the topological phase boundary, we identify an interesting dynamical phase transition of the quenched state in the long-time limit, characterized by an abrupt change of the pairing gap at a critical quenched interaction strength. We further demonstrate the topological nature of this dynamical phase transition from edge-state analysis of the quenched states. Our findings provide interesting clues for the understanding of topological phase transitions in dynamical processes, and can be useful for the dynamical detection of Majorana edge states in corresponding systems.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure

Rigidity for pp-Laplacian type equations on compact Riemannian manifolds

In this paper, we obtain two rigidity results for $p$-Laplacian type equations on compact Riemannian manifolds by using of the carr\'e du champ and nonlinear flow methods, respectively, where rigidity means that the PDE has only constant solution when a parameter is in a certain range. Moreover, an interpolation inequality is derived as an application.Comment: 14 page