Spin polarizability of a trapped superfluid Fermi gas
Soft Condensed Matter
2011-10-18 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
The polarization produced by the relative displacement of the potentials trapping two spin species of a dilute Fermi gas with is calculated at unitarity by assuming phase separation between the superfluid and a spin polarized phase at zero temperature. Due to the energy cost associated with pair breaking, the dipole magnetic polarizability vanishes in the linear limit and exhibits important deviations from the ideal gas behaviour even for displacements of the order of the size of the atomic cloud. The magnetic behaviour in the presence of different trapping frequencies for the two spin species is also discussed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605754,
title = {Spin polarizability of a trapped superfluid Fermi gas},
author = {A. Recati and I. Carusotto and C. Lobo and S. Stringari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605754},
year = {2011}
}