Unconventional pairing in few-fermion systems tuned by external confinement
Abstract
We study the ground-state properties of a two-component one-dimensional system of a few ultra-cold fermions with attractive interactions. We show that, by ramping up an external potential barrier felt by one of the components, it is possible to induce regions of exotic superfluid phases, characterized by a tunable finite net momentum of the Cooper pair, without changing the overall spin populations. We show that these phases, which are the few-body analogs of the celebrated Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state, can be distinguished by analyzing a specific two-particle correlation encoded in the noise correlation function. Our theoretical results can be addressed in current experiments with cold atoms confined in spin-selective optical traps.
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@article{arxiv.2105.12519,
title = {Unconventional pairing in few-fermion systems tuned by external confinement},
author = {Jacek Dobrzyniecki and Giuliano Orso and Tomasz Sowiński},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.12519},
year = {2021}
}
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11 pages, 7 figures