Studies on exotic superfluids in spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases were reviewed

The recent experimental implementation of synthetic gauge field in ultracold atomic gases has significantly extended the horizon of quantum simulation in these systems. In the 2015 (1) issue of Science China, a review paper discusses the recent progresses on the theoretical study of exotic pairing superfluids in ultracold Fermi gases with synthetic spin-orbit coupling. It demonstrates that the emergence of the various novel pairing mechanisms are direct results of unconventional single-particle dispersion spectral under spin-orbit-coupling.