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Finite temperature QMC study of the one-dimensional polarized Fermi gas

Quantum Gases 2010-07-15 v2

Abstract

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques are used to provide an approximation-free investigation of the phases of the one-dimensional attractive Hubbard Hamiltonian in the presence of population imbalance. The temperature at which the "Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov" (FFLO) phase is destroyed by thermal fluctuations is determined as a function of the polarization. It is shown that the presence of a confining potential does not dramatically alter the FFLO regime, and that recent experiments on trapped atomic gases likely lie just within the stable temperature range.

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@article{arxiv.1004.4499,
  title  = {Finite temperature QMC study of the one-dimensional polarized Fermi gas},
  author = {M. J. Wolak and V. G. Rousseau and C. Miniatura and B. Gremaud and R. T. Scalettar and G. G. Batrouni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4499},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

10 pages, 13 figures We added a discussion of the behaviour of the FFLO peak as a function of the attractive interaction strength