Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory and the Real-Time Dynamics of Fermi Superfluids
Aurel Bulgac
I describe the time-dependent superfluid local density approximation, which is an adiabatic extension of the density functional theory to superfluid Fermi systems and their real-time dynamics. This new theoretical framework has been used to describe several phenomena in cold atomic gases and nuclear collective motion: excitation of the Higgs modes in strongly interacting Fermi superfluids, generation of quantized vortices, crossing and reconnection of vortices, excitation of the superflow at velocities above the critical velocity, excitation of quantum shock waves and domain walls in the collisions of superfluid atomic clouds, and excitation of collective states in nuclei.
arXiv:1301.0357•Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science•Jun 14, 2013•83 citations