Topological Supersolidity of Dipolar Fermi Gases in a Spin-Dependent Optical Lattice

TL;DR

This paper explores the emergence of topological supersolid phases in dipolar Fermi gases within a spin-dependent optical lattice, revealing phase transitions and stability conditions through numerical analysis and proposing an experimental realization method.

Contribution

It introduces a novel topological supersolid state combining topological superfluidity with stripe order in dipolar Fermi gases, and proposes an experimental protocol for its realization.

Findings

Topological supersolid states can be synthesized from topological superfluid states with stripe order.

Phase transitions occur among p-wave superfluid, topological superfluid, and supersolid states by tuning parameters.

The topological supersolid state is stable, confirmed by positive inverse compressibility.

Abstract

We investigate topological supersolidity of dipolar Fermi gases in a spin-dependent 2D optical lattice. Numerical results show that the topological supersolid states can be synthesized via the combination of topological superfluid states with the stripe order, where the topological superfluid states generated with dipolar interaction possess the $\Delta_{x}+i\Delta_{y}$ order, and it is of D class topological classification. By adjusting the ratio between hopping amplitude $t_{x}/t_{y}$ and interaction strength $U$ with dipole orientation $\phi \approx \frac{\pi}{4}$, the system will undergo phase transitions among the $p_{x}+ip_{y}$-wave topological superfluid state, the p-wave superfluid state, and the topological supersolid state. The topological supersolid state is proved to be stable by the positive sign of the inverse compressibility. We design an experimental protocol to realize the staggered next-next-nearest-neighbour hopping via the laser assisted tunneling technique, which is the key to synthesize topological supersolid states.