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BEC-BCS crossover, phase transitions and phase separation in polarized resonantly-paired superflu ids

Daniel E. Sheehy
(
- Colorado U.
)
,
Leo Radzihovsky
(
- Colorado U.
)

Nov, 2006

134 pages

Published in:

Annals Phys. 322 (2007) 1790-1924

e-Print:

cond-mat/0607803 [cond-mat.supr-con]

DOI:

10.1016/j.aop.2006.09.009

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

We study resonantly-paired s-wave superfluidity in a degenerate gas of two species (hyperfine states labeled by ↑, ↓) of fermionic atoms when the numbers N ↑ and N ↓ of the two species are unequal , i.e., the system is “polarized.” We find that the continuous crossover from the Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) limit of tightly-bound diatomic molecules to the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) limit of weakly correlated Cooper pairs, studied extensively at equal populations, is interrupted by a variety of distinct phenomena under an imposed population difference Δ N ≡ N ↑ − N ↓ . Our findings are summarized by a “polarization” (Δ N ) versus Feshbach-resonance detuning ( δ ) zero-temperature phase diagram, which exhibits regions of phase separation, a periodic FFLO superfluid, a polarized normal Fermi gas and a polarized molecular superfluid consisting of a molecular condensate and a fully polarized Fermi gas. We describe numerous experimental signatures of such phases and the transitions between them, in particular focusing on their spatial structure in the inhomogeneous environment of an atomic trap.

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76 RevTeX pages, 54 figures. Corrected typos. PRB two-column format. To appear in Annals of Physics (already available online at AOP website)

Feshbach resonance
Polarized superfluids
BEC–BCS crossover
Fermionic superfluidity

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