Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling in Cold Atoms

This is a review volume covering a wide range of topics in this newly developed research field. The intended audience corresponds to graduate students, post-docs and colleagues working in the field of cold atomic gases. This is the first review volume dedicated to this active research frontier, and provides a comprehensive and pedagogical summary of recent progresses in the field.

Sample Chapter(s)
Preface
Quasi-low Dimensional Fermi Gases with Spin-orbit Coupling

Contents:

• Spin-Orbit Coupling and Topological Phases for Ultracold Atoms (Long Zhang and Xiong-Jun Liu)
• Quasi-Low Dimensional Fermi Gases with Spin-Orbit Coupling (Ren Zhang)
• Rashba-Spin-Orbit Coupling in Interacting Fermi Gases (Jayantha P Vyasanakere)
• Pairing Superfluidity in Spin-Orbit Coupled Ultracold Fermi Gases (Xingze Qiu and Wei Yi)
• Superfluid Properties of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas (Juan Yao, Shanshan Ding, Zhenhua Yu, and Shizhong Zhang)
• Spin-Orbit Coupling in Three-Component Bose Gases (Wei Han and Wei Zhang)
• Dynamical Spin-Orbit Coupling in Cold Atoms Induced by Cavity Field (Chuanzhou Zhu, Lin Dong, and Han Pu)

Readership: Graduate students, post-docs and researchers working in the field of cold atomic gases.
Key Features:

• The first comprehensive review that covers new frontiers of synthetic spin-orbit coupling in cold atoms
• Contains detailed information in both theory and experiment
• All chapter authors are active researchers in the very field