title: Collective Rabi oscillations and solitons in a time-dependent BCS pairing problem.
abstract: Motivated by recent efforts to achieve cold fermions pairing, we study the nonadiabatic regime of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer state formation. After the interaction is turned on, at times shorter than the quasiparticle energy relaxation time, the system oscillates between the superfluid and normal state. The collective nonlinear evolution of the BCS-Bogoliubov amplitudes u(p), v(p), along with the pairing function Delta, is shown to be an integrable dynamical problem which admits single soliton and soliton train solitons. We interpret the collective oscillations as Bloch precession of Anderson pseudospins, where each soliton causes a pseudospin 2pi Rabi rotation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Barankov
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Levitov
authors.forename: B Z
authors.initials: BZ
authors.lastname: Spivak