自旋-轨道耦合作用下玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚在量子相变附近的朗道临界速度

各向异性超流体中的朗道临界速度并非简单地由运动方向的元激发能谱决定.在自旋-轨道耦合作用下的双分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚中,当系统跨过平面波相与零动量相之间的量子相变时,尽管超流声速连续变化,但垂直于自旋-轨道耦合方向的朗道临界速度会出现跳变,跳变幅度随自旋相互作用强度单调增加.根据线性响应理论,计算了凝聚体中运动杂质在不同速度下的能量耗散率,提出可以通过能量耗散观测临界速度在量子相变处的不连续性.     

自旋-轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体激发谱及其有效调控

利用Bogoliubov理论研究了自由空间中可调自旋-轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(Bose-Einstein condensates, BECs)的激发谱.通过高频近似得到具有两体相互作用时与时间无关的有效Floquet哈密顿量,从而获得一种可调的自旋-轨道耦合和一种可由周期驱动拉曼耦合调控的有效两体相互作用.基于系统有效的Floquet哈密顿量,得到凝聚体具有相互作用时的色散关系,发现周期驱动强度可以有效地调控色散关系的结构,即周期驱动的拉曼耦合可以调控系统在零动量相与平面波相之间的相变.进一步利用Bogoliubov理论得到系统的Bogoliubov-de-Gennes (BdG)方程,分别研究了凝聚体在零动量相和平面波相中的激发谱.发现零动量相中的激发谱均为声子激发,且激发谱随周期驱动强度的增加表现出贝塞尔函数的行为;平面波相中的激发谱存在声子激发和旋子激发,当周期驱动强度增加时,旋子模出现软化现象.因此,可以通过周期驱动拉曼耦合实时地调控自旋-轨道耦合BECs激发谱中的声子激发和旋子激发.     

线性塞曼劈裂对自旋-轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中亮孤子动力学的影响

利用变分近似及基于Gross-Pitaevskii方程的直接数值模拟方法,研究了自旋-轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中线性塞曼劈裂对亮孤子动力学的影响,发现线性塞曼劈裂将导致体系具有两个携带有限动量的静态孤子,以及它们在微扰下存在一个零能的Goldstone激发模和一个频率与线性塞曼劈裂有关的谐振激发模.同时给出了描述孤子运动的质心坐标表达式,发现线性塞曼劈裂明显影响孤子的运动速度和振荡周期.     

自旋-轨道耦合二分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚系统的孤子解

在旋量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中,孤子态作为宏观量子效应的典型状态,可以通过自旋-轨道耦合进行调控,这使得对自旋-轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中孤子的研究成为近年来超冷原子领域研究的重要课题之一.本文研究了描述一维自旋-轨道耦合二分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体Gross-Pitaevskii方程的精确求解,利用直接假设及可积约化方法,给出了系统多种类型的孤子解,讨论了相应的孤子动力学以及自旋-轨道耦合效应对系统的量子磁化和自旋-极化态的影响.     

F-P腔内自旋轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的色散研究

计算分析了处于单模Fabry-Pérot腔内的无相互作用玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体在引入自旋轨道耦合作用下的色散关系. F-P腔为冷原子系统提供了量子化的光晶格,利用紧束缚近似和平均场近似进行二次量子化,选取合适的腔参数得到单原子缀饰态能级的具体表达式.两束弱的Raman激光和外加磁场作用于玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体,实现了有效的自旋轨道耦合,提供了一个人工规范势,使玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中产生了沿腔轴方向一维的高度可控的狄拉克点.     

自旋轨道耦合诱导的调制不稳定性

原子玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的调制稳定性决定了凝聚体的超流属性,是超冷原子物理研究的重要内容。在由拉曼光形成的自旋轨道耦合的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中,存在4种不同的零动量本征态,由于自旋轨道耦合的存在,其中两种态载有流,另两种态不载流。通过对它们进行调制稳定性分析,发现无论在什么参数空间,这4种态都是调制不稳定的,即自旋轨道耦合总是能够诱导出调制不稳定性。这些态的动力学演化揭示调制不稳定性能够产生复杂的图案。     

自旋-轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚势垒散射特性的研究

对自旋-轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚中的双势垒散射问题进行了研究, 得到了系统透射系数的解析表达式, 并对如何克服Klein隧穿以及如何束缚Dirac粒子进行了讨论并给出囚禁Dirac粒子的实验方案. 此外, 运用时间劈裂谱方法对Dirac粒子势垒散射问题进行了数值模拟. 分析了Dirac粒子分别在势垒Klein阻塞区域中心以及边缘的透射情况. 最后从排斥和吸引相互作用两方面研究了非线性相互作用对于Dirac粒子演化的影响, 结果表明弱非线性相互作用对散射特性的影响非常小, 而强非线性相互作用会彻底破坏波包的动量分布, 从而改变Dirac粒子的势垒散射效果． 关键词： 自旋-轨道耦合 Klein隧穿 势垒散射 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚     

环形势阱中自旋-轨道耦合旋转玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态

研究了在环形势阱中自旋-轨道耦合旋转玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构.探索了自旋-轨道耦合作用和旋转效应对基态的影响.结果发现,在环形势阱下,基态结构呈现环形分布的half-skyrmion链.调节自旋-轨道耦合强度,不仅可以改变体系内half-skyrmion数量,而且能够调控half-skyrmion环形排列的对称性.随着旋转频率增大,体系从平面波相转化为环形对称排列的half-skyrmion链相,最后过渡到三角格子的half-skyrmion相.讨论了自旋相互作用和势阱形状对基态的影响.自旋-轨道耦合强度和旋转频率作为体系的调控参数,可用于控制不同基态相间的转化.     

梯度磁场中自旋-轨道耦合旋转两分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态研究

利用准二维Gross-Pitaevskii方程,研究了在梯度磁场中具有自旋-轨道耦合的旋转两分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构.探索了自旋-轨道耦合作用和梯度磁场对基态的影响.结果发现,在梯度磁场下,随着自旋-轨道耦合强度增大,基态结构由skyrmion格子逐渐过渡为skyrmion列.对于弱自旋-轨道耦合和小旋转频率情况,增大磁场梯度强度可导致基态由平面波相转变为half-skyrmion;对于强自旋-轨道耦合和大旋转频率情况,梯度磁场可诱导hidden涡旋的产生.梯度磁场、自旋-轨道耦合和旋转作为体系的调控参数,可用于控制不同基态相间的转化.     

自旋-轨道耦合系统中的自旋流定义

通常的自旋流定义在描述自旋-轨道耦合系统中的自旋输运是不完整的与非物理的。文章作者提出在这类系统中自旋流的恰当定义。新定义的自旋流克服了通常定义下的本质缺点，可通过实验直接观测。     

Topological superfluid in a two-dimensional polarized Fermi gas with spin-orbit coupling and adiabatic rotation

We study the properties of superfluid in a two-dimensional(2 D) polarized Fermi gas with spin–orbit coupling and adiabatic rotation which are trapped in a harmonic potential. Due to the competition between polarization, spin–orbit coupling, and adiabatic rotation, the Fermi gas exhibits many intriguing phenomena. By using the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer(BCS) mean-field method with local density approximation, we investigate the dependence of order parameter solution on the spin–orbit coupling strength and the rotation velocity. The energy spectra with different rotation velocities are studied in detail. Besides, the conditions for the zero-energy Majorana fermions in topological superfluid phase to be observed are obtained. By investigating distributions of number density, we find that the rotation has opposite effect on the distribution of number density with different spins, which leads to the enhancement of the polarization of Fermi gas. Here,we focus on the region of BCS pairing and ignore the Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state.     

Spin-orbit coupling in Bose-Einstein condensate and degenerate Fermi gases

We review our recent experimental realization and investigation of a spin orbit （SO） coupled Bose Einstein condensate （BEC） and quantum degenerate Fermi gas. By using two counter-propagathlg Ranlan lasers and controlling the different frequency of two R,aman lasers to engineer the atom light interaction, we first study the SO coupling in BEC. Then we study SO coupling in Fermi gas. We, observe the spin dephasing in spin dynamics and momentum distribution asymmetry of the equilibrium state as halhnarks of SO coupling in a Fermi gas. To clearly reveal the, property of SO coupling Fermi gas, we also study the momentmn-resolved radio-frequency spectroscopy which characterizes the energy momentum dispersion and spin composition of the quantum states. We observe the change of errmion surfaces in different helieity branches with different atomic density, which indicates that a Lifshitz transition of the Fermi surface topology change can be found by further cooling the system. At last, we study the momentum-resolved Raman spectroscopy of an ultracoht Fermi gas.     

Polaron and molecular states of a spin–orbit coupled impurity in a spinless Fermi sea

We investigate the polaron and molecular states of a fermionic atom with one-dimensional spin–orbit coupling(SOC)coupled to a three-dimensional spinless Fermi sea. Because of the interplay among the SOC, Raman coupling and spinselected interatomic interactions, the polaron state induced by the spin–orbit coupled impurity exhibits quite unique features. We find that the energy dispersion of the polaron generally has a double-minimum structure, which results in a finite center-of-mass(c.m.) momentum in the ground state, different from the zero-momentum polarons where SOC are introduced into the majority atoms. By further tuning the parameters such as the atomic interaction strength, a discontinuous transition between the polarons with different c.m. momenta may occur, signaled by the singular behavior of the quasiparticle residue and effective mass of the polaron. Meanwhile, the molecular state as well as the polaron-to-molecule transition is also strongly affected by the Raman coupling and the effective Zeeman field, which are introduced by the lasers generating SOC on the impurity atom. We also discuss the effects of a more general spin-dependent interaction and mass ratio. These results would be beneficial for the study of impurity physics brought by SOC.     

二维自旋轨道耦合电子气中持续自旋螺旋态的稳定性的研究

本文利用半经典的自旋密度矩阵方法对二维自旋轨道耦合电子气中持续自旋螺旋态的稳定性进行了一些研究, 重点研究了自旋螺旋态的寿命与其波矢、载流子迁移率、温度、自旋轨道耦合强度、外电场强度等因素之间的关系, 并将部分理论计算结果与最近的一些相关实验结果进行了比较,发现两者之间大致是符合的.     

Field-assisted spin-polarized electron transport through a single quantum well with spin-orbit coupling

We have investigated theoretically the field-driven electron transport through a single-quantum-well semiconductor heterostructure with spin-orbit coupling.The splitting of the asymmetric Fano-type resonance peaks due to the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling is found to be highly sensitive to the direction of the incident electron.The splitting of the Fano-type resonance induces the spin-polarization dependent electron current.The location and the line shape of the Fano-type resonance can be controlled by adjusting the energy and the direction of the incident electron,the oscillation frequency,and the amplitude of the external field.These interesting features may be used to devise tunable spin filters and realize pure spin transmission currents.     

Transport polygonal properties in a multi-terminal regular quantum ring with Rashba spin-orbit coupling

<正>Transport properties in a multi-terminal regular polygonal quantum ring with Rashba spin-orbit coupling(SOC) are investigated analytically using quantum networks and the transport matrix method.The results show that conductances remain at exactly the same values when the output leads are located at axisymmetric positions.However,for the nonaxisymmetrical case,there is a phase difference between the upper and lower arm,which leads to zero conductances appearing periodically.An isotropy of the conductance is destroyed by the Rashba SOC effect in the axisymmetric case. In addition,the position of zero conductance is regulated with the strength of the Rashba SOC.     

太赫兹场辅助的单量子阱自旋共振输运

在考虑自旋轨道耦合的情况下,研究了通过一非磁性半导体异质结的太赫兹光子驱动的电子输运,研究结果显示频率相关的电导谱出现不对称的Fano型共振的劈裂;随着振荡场幅度的增加,多光子辅助过程出现;通过改变外加场参数,可以实现自旋过滤目的,特别是在干涉相消Fano型共振的频率位置时,出现了100%纯的自旋极化流.这些属性有助于大范围可调的自旋过滤器的实现并且可以得到纯的自旋透射流.     

Spin transport in a chain of polygonal quantum rings with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling

Using a transfer matrix method, we investigate spin transport through a chain of polygonal rings with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling(DSOC). The spin conductance is dependent on the number of sides in the polygons. When DSOC is considered in a chain which also has Rashba spin-orbit coupling(RSOC) of the same magnitude, the total conductance is the same as that for the same chain with no SOC. However, when the two types of SOC have different values, there results a unique anisotropic conductance.     

AlGaN/GaN量子阱中子带的Rashba自旋劈裂和子带间自旋轨道耦合作用研究

首先把本征值方程投影到导带的子空间中, 进而得到AlGaN/GaN量子阱中第一、二子带的Rashba自旋劈裂系数(α ₁, α ₂)和子带间自旋-轨道耦合系数η₁₂. 然后自恰求解薛定谔方程和泊松方程计算了不同栅压的量子阱中的α ₁, α ₂和η₁₂, 并分别讨论了量子阱阱层、左右异质结界面和垒层对它们的贡献. 结果表明可以通过栅压来调节自旋-轨道耦合系数, 子带间自旋轨道耦合系数η₁₂比Rashba自旋劈裂系数α ₁, α ₂小, 但基本在同一数量级.     

Spin current and its heat effect in a multichannel quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Using the perturbation method,we theoretically study the spin current and its heat effect in a multichannel quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling.The heat generated by the spin current is calculated.With the increase of the width of the quantum wire,the spin current and the heat generated both exhibit period oscillations with equal amplitudes.When the quantum-channel number is doubled,the oscillation periods of the spin current and of the heat generated both decrease by a factor of 2.For the spin current j s,xy,the amplitude increases with the decrease of the quantum channel;while the amplitude of the spin current j s,yx remains the same.Therefore we conclude that the effect of the quantum-channel number on the spin current j s,xy is greater than that on the spin current j s,yx.The strength of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling is tunable by the gate voltage,and the gate voltage can be varied experimentally,which implies a new method of detecting the spin current.In addition,we can control the amplitude and the oscillation period of the spin current by controlling the number of the quantum channels.All these characteristics of the spin current will be very important for detecting and controlling the spin current,and especially for designing new spintronic devices in the future.