(a) Energy of the Bogoliubov excitations as a function of the chemical potential μ Sylvain Nascimbène 10.6084/m9.figshare.1012019.v1 https://iop.figshare.com/articles/figure/_a_Energy_of_the_Bogoliubov_excitations_as_a_function_of_the_chemical_potential_/1012019 <p><strong>Figure 8.</strong> (a) Energy of the Bogoliubov excitations as a function of the chemical potential μ. The parameters are the same as for figure <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-4075/46/13/134005/article#jpb448206f5" target="_blank">5</a>, expect with a trap frequency ω/2π = 600 Hz. The bulk hole sector is pictured in blue. Starting with a system prepared at low temperature in the trivial phase (μ −2 <em>E<sub>r</sub></em>), the Majorana state connected to the hole sector of the trivial superfluid (in red) can be prepared by increasing adiabatically the chemical potential up to μ = 0. (b) Expected fidelity \mathcal {F} as a function of the ramp duration <em>T</em> (black dots). The solid line is an exponential fit to the numerical data. A fidelity \mathcal {F}>0.9 is expected for ramp durations <em>T</em> > 3300 /<em>E<sub>r</sub></em> 120 ms.</p> <p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>We propose an experimental implementation of a topological superfluid with ultracold fermionic atoms. An optical superlattice is used to juxtapose a 1D gas of fermionic atoms and a 2D conventional superfluid of condensed Feshbach molecules. The latter acts as a Cooper pair reservoir and effectively induces a superfluid gap in the 1D system. Combined with a spin-dependent optical lattice along the 1D tube and laser-induced atom tunnelling, we obtain a topological superfluid phase. In the regime of weak couplings to the molecular field and for a uniform gas, the atomic system is equivalent to Kitaev's model of a p-wave superfluid. Using a numerical calculation, we show that the topological superfluidity is robust beyond the perturbative limit and in the presence of a harmonic trap. Finally, we describe how to investigate some physical properties of the Majorana fermions located at the topological superfluid boundaries. In particular, we discuss how to prepare and detect a given Majorana edge state.</p> 2013-06-24 00:00:00 latter acts perturbative limit Majorana edge state topological superfluidity Majorana fermions 1 D gas uniform gas ultracold fermionic atoms Majorana state Feshbach molecules topological superfluid 1 D system Cooper pair reservoir ramp duration T superfluid gap ramp durations T topological superfluid boundaries 2 D bulk hole sector fermionic atoms Bogoliubov excitations hole sector topological superfluid phase 1 D tube Atomic Physics Molecular Physics