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P-wave Superfluidity by Blockade Effects in a Rydberg-Dressed Fermi Gas

Quantum Gases 2015-06-16 v3 Superconductivity

Abstract

We systematically investigate the p-wave superfluidity of a Rydberg-dressed Fermi gas, where the soft-core effective interaction is of finite radius RcR_{c} due to blockade effects. After solving the BCS gap equation and comparing the free energy, we obtain the quantum phase diagram, which is composed of three different phases: polar (pzp_{z}), axial (px+ipyp_{x}+ip_{y}), and axi-planar (px+iβppyp_{x}+i\beta_{p}p_{y}) phases. The tri-critical point locates around RckF1R_{c}k_{F}\sim1, where kFk_{F} is the Fermi wave vector. We further derive the Ginzburg-Landau theory to explain the phase diagram, and estimate the transition temperature to be about 0.1EFE_{F} in the current experimental regime of 6^{6}Li. Our work paves the way for future studies on p-wave superfluids and related quantum phase transitions in ultracold atoms.

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@article{arxiv.1307.5444,
  title  = {P-wave Superfluidity by Blockade Effects in a Rydberg-Dressed Fermi Gas},
  author = {Bo Xiong and H. H. Jen and Daw-Wei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.5444},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages plus 5 pages supplementary material, 5 figures; minor changes