1305.6852 (V. W. Scarola)

Vortex Attachment via Matrix Products: Application to Flat Spin-Orbit
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V. W. Scarola

A formalism is introduced to implement basis-independent vortex attachment in ansatz wavefunctions defined using matrix products. Wavefunctions describing strongly interacting two-dimensional helical fermions in the presence of spin-orbit coupling are constructed as an application. A comparison between exact diagonalization of a model motivated by experiments on ultracold atomic gases and Laughlin-like ansatz states is made.

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