Majorana Fermions in Equilibrium and in Driven Cold-Atom Quantum Wires
Majorana Fermions in Equilibrium and in Driven Cold-Atom Quantum Wires
We introduce a new approach to create and detect Majorana fermions using optically trapped 1D fermionic atoms. In our proposed setup, two internal states of the atoms couple via an optical Raman transition-simultaneously inducing an effective spin-orbit interaction and magnetic field-while a background molecular BEC cloud generates s-wave pairing for …