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Bound State of Ultracold Fermions in the Spin Imbalanced Normal State

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics Atomic Physics

Abstract

We study a polarized Fermi gas and demonstrate that Fano-Feshbach (FF) resonances lead to the pairing of fermions and holes into long living massive bosonic modes (bifermions and biholes), which can be viewed as signatures of a first order quantum phase transition. These modes, which are neither conventional Cooper pairs nor closed channel bosonic dimers, have a peculiar dispersion relation and appear already in the weak coupling limit, i.e. for large FF detunings. Our result is in accord with claims of Schunck \emph{et al.} [cond-mat/0702066] that by stabilizing the normal state the population imbalance still allows effect of s-wave fermionic pairing.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0703003,
  title  = {Bound State of Ultracold Fermions in the Spin Imbalanced Normal State},
  author = {F. Fumarola and I. L. Aleiner and B. L. Altshuler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0703003},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures