Three-dimensional spin–orbit coupled Fermi gases: Fulde–Ferrell pairing, Majorana fermions, Weyl fermions, and gapless topological superfluidity |
(a) Evolution of the superfluid phase with equally increasing in-plane and out-of-plane Zeeman fields (i.e., h in = h out = h ). The system evolves from a gapped FF superfluid to a gapped topologically nontrivial topo-FF4 state, and then to a gapless topologically non-trivial FF superfluid with either four (gapless topo-FF4) or two Weyl nodes/loops (gapless topo-FF2). The solid and dashed lines show the energy at k = 0 [ E 2+( k = 0)] and the minimum energy [min E 2+( k )] of the lower particle branch. |