Coexistence and shell structures of several superfluids in trapped three-component Fermi mixtures

Feb, 2007
4 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.A 75 (2007) 023622
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Abstract: (APS)
We study the properties of a trapped interacting three component Fermi gas. We assume that one of the components can have a different mass from the other two. We calculate the different phases of the three component mixture and find a rich variety of different phases corresponding to different pairing channels, and simple ways of tuning the system from one phase to another. In particular, we predict coexistence of several different superfluids in the trap, forming a shell structure, and phase transitions from this mixture of superfluids to a single superfluid when the system parameters or temperature is varied. Such shell structures realize superfluids with a nontrivial spatial topology and leave clear observable signatures in the density profile of the gas.
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  • 4 pages, 4 figures