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Universal phase diagram and scaling functions of imbalanced Fermi gases

Quantum Gases 2018-11-09 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We discuss the phase diagram and the universal scaling functions of attractive Fermi gases at finite imbalance. The existence of a quantum multicritical point for the unitary gas at vanishing chemical potential μ\mu and effective magnetic field hh, first discussed by Nikoli\'{c} and Sachdev, gives rise to three different phase diagrams, depending on whether the inverse scattering length 1/a1/a is negative, positive or zero. Within a Luttinger-Ward formalism, the phase diagram and pressure of the unitary gas is calculated as a function of the dimensionless scaling variables T/μT/\mu and h/μh/\mu. The results indicate that beyond the Clogston-Chandrasekhar limit at (h/μ)c1.09(h/\mu)_c\simeq 1.09, the unitary gas exhibits an inhomogeneous superfluid phase with FFLO order that can reach critical temperatures near unitarity of 0.03TF\simeq 0.03\, T_F.

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@article{arxiv.1804.03035,
  title  = {Universal phase diagram and scaling functions of imbalanced Fermi gases},
  author = {Bernhard Frank and Johannes Lang and Wilhelm Zwerger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03035},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

15 pages, 8 figures, JETP style, text overlap with arXiv:1608.00457, v2: published version