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Trapped p-wave superfluids: a local density approach

Superconductivity 2009-11-13 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

The local density approximation is used to study the ground state superfluid properties of harmonically trapped p-wave Fermi gases as a function of fermion-fermion attraction strength. While the density distribution is bimodal on the weakly attracting BCS side, it becomes unimodal with increasing attraction and saturates towards the BEC side. This non-monotonic evolution is related to the topological gapless to gapped phase transition, and may be observed via radio-frequency spectroscopy since quasi-particle transfer current requires a finite threshold only on the BEC side.

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@article{arxiv.0801.3795,
  title  = {Trapped p-wave superfluids: a local density approach},
  author = {M. Iskin and C. J. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.3795},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages and 4 figures, to be submitted to PRA

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