%0 Journal Article
%T Spin-Orbit Coupling Induced Coherent Production of Feshbach Molecules in a Degenerate Fermi Gas
%A Zhengkun Fu
%A Lianghui Huang
%A Zengming Meng
%A Pengjun Wang
%A Long Zhang
%A Shizhong Zhang
%A Hui Zhai
%A Peng Zhang
%A Jing Zhang
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1038/NPHYS2824
%X In this work we demonstrate a dynamic process in which SO coupling can coherently produce s-wave Feshbach molecules from a fully polarized Fermi gas, and can induce a coherent oscillation between Feshbach molecules and spin polarized gas. For comparison, we also show that such phenomena are absent if the inter-component coupling is momentum-independent. This demonstrates experimentally that SO coupling does provide finite matrix element between a singlet state and a triplet state, and therefore, implies the bound pairs of a system with SO coupling have triplet p-wave component, which can become topological superfluid by further cooling these pairs to condensation and confining them to lower dimension.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4568v2