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Engineering Weyl Superfluid in Ultracold Fermionic Gases by One-Dimensional Optical Superlattices

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In this paper, we theoretically demonstrate by using one-dimensional superlattices to couple two-dimensional time-reversal-breaking gapped topological superfluid models, an anomalous Weyl superfluid (WS) can be obtained. This new phase features its unique Fermi arc states (FAS) on the surfaces. In the conventional WS, FAS exist only for a part of the line connecting the projections of Weyl points and extending to the border and/or center of surface Brillouin zone. But for the anomalous WS, FAS exist for the whole line. As a proof of principle, we self-consistently at the mean-field level claim the achievement of the anomalous WS in the model with a dichromatic superlattice. In addition, inversion symmetry and band inversion in this model are analyzed to provide the unique features of identifying the anomalous WS experimentally by the momentum-resolved radio-frequency spectroscopy.

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B. H. was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11547047.

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Huang, B. Engineering Weyl Superfluid in Ultracold Fermionic Gases by One-Dimensional Optical Superlattices. J Low Temp Phys 190, 78–89 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-017-1822-y

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