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Finite-Temperature Behavior of an Inter-species Fermionic Superfluid with Population Imbalance

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Abstract

We determine the superfluid transition temperature TcT_c and related finite temperature phase diagrams for the entire BCS-Bose Einstein condensation crossover in a homogeneous mixture of 6^{6}Li and 40^{40}K atoms with population imbalance. Our work is motivated by the recent observation of an inter-species Feshbach resonance. Pairing fluctuation effects, which significantly reduce TcT_c from the onset temperature for pairing (TT^*), provide reasonable estimates of TcT_c and indicate that the inter-species superfluid phase should be accessible in future experiments. Although a generalized-Sarma phase is not stable in the ground state near unitarity, our phase diagrams show that it appears as an intermediate-temperature superfluid.

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@article{arxiv.0812.3121,
  title  = {Finite-Temperature Behavior of an Inter-species Fermionic Superfluid with Population Imbalance},
  author = {Hao Guo and Chih-Chun Chien and Qijin Chen and Yan He and K. Levin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3121},
  year   = {2013}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures

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