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Generic Phase Diagram of Fermion Superfluids with Population Imbalance

Superconductivity 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

It is shown by microscopic calculations for trapped imbalanced Fermi superfluids that the gap function has always sign changes, i.e., the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state like, up to a critical imbalance PcP_c, beyond which normal state becomes stable, at temperature T=0. A phase diagram is constructed in TT vs PP, where the BCS state without sign change is stable only at T0T\neq 0. We reproduce the observed bimodality in the density profile to identify its origin and evaluate PcP_c as functions of TT and the coupling strength. These dependencies match with the recent experiments.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0604339,
  title  = {Generic Phase Diagram of Fermion Superfluids with Population Imbalance},
  author = {K. Machida and T. Mizushima and M. Ichioka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0604339},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures, replaced by the version to appear in PRL