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We study the superfluid pairing in a two-species gas of heteronuclear fermionic molecules with equal density. The interplay of the isotropic s-wave interaction and anisotropic long-range dipolar interaction reveals rich physics. We find…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-03-11 Renyuan Liao , Joachim Brand

We present an experimental study of a two component Fermi gas following an interaction quench into the superfluid phase. Starting with a weakly attractive gas in the normal phase, interactions are ramped to unitarity at a range of rates and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-08 P. Dyke , A. Hogan , I. Herrera , C. C. N. Kuhn , S. Hoinka , C. J. Vale

We present the experimental realization of a long-lived superfluid flow of a quantum gas rotating in an anharmonic potential, sustained by its own angular momentum. The gas is set into motion by rotating an elliptical deformation of the…

We study the real-time motion of a microscopic object in a cold Fermi gas at unitary conditions by using an extended Thomas-Fermi density functional approach. We find that spontaneous creation of singly quantized vortex-antivortex pairs…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-12 F. Ancilotto , L. Salasnich , F. Toigo

We investigate the dynamics of quantum vortex dipoles in a strongly interacting, spin-imbalanced Fermi superfluid at zero temperature. Using fully microscopic time-dependent density functional theory, we demonstrate that the dipole…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-05 Andrea Barresi , Piotr Magierski , Gabriel Wlazłowski

We simulate a balanced attractively interacting two-component Fermi gas in a one-dimensional lattice perturbed with a moving potential well or barrier. Using the time-evolving block decimation method, we study different velocities of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-20 A. -M. Visuri , D. -H. Kim , J. J. Kinnunen , F. Massel , P. Törmä

We investigate the stability of $\pi$-phase in a polarized superfluid Fermi gas ($N_\uparrow>N_\downarrow$, where $N_\sigma$ is the number of atoms in the hyperfine state described by pseudospin-$\sigma$). In our previous paper [T.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-07-04 Takashi Kashimura , Shunji Tsuchiya , Yoji Ohashi

We study theoretically the low-temperature phases of a two-component atomic Fermi gas with attractive s-wave interactions under conditions of rapid rotation. We find that, in the extreme quantum limit, when all particles occupy the lowest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-17 Gunnar Moller , Nigel R. Cooper

We evaluate the frequencies of scissors modes for density and concentration fluctuations in a vapour of fermionic atoms placed in two hyperfine levels inside a spherical harmonic trap. Both the superfluid and the normal state are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anna Minguzzi , Mario P. Tosi

We calculate the superfluid fraction of an interacting Fermi gas, in the presence of a one-dimensional periodic potential of strength $V_0$ and wave-vector $q$. Special focus is given to the unitary Fermi gas, characterized by the divergent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-18 Giuliano Orso , Sandro Stringari

We study the equilibrium current density profiles of harmonically trapped ultra-cold Fermi gases in quantum Hall-like states that appear when the quasi-two-dimensional trap is set in fast rotation. The density profile of the gas (in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 K. Bencheikh , S. Medjedel , G. Vignale

We present an asymptotic analysis of the effects of rapid rotation on the ground state properties of a superfluid confined in a two-dimensional trap. The trapping potential is assumed to be radial and homogeneous of degree larger than two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 Michele Correggi , Florian Pinsker , Nicolas Rougerie , Jakob Yngvason

The moment of inertia Q of a trapped superfluid gas of atomic Fermions (6Li) is calculated as a function of the temperature. At zero temperature the moment of inertia takes on the irrotational flow value. Only for T very close to Tc rigid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Farine , P. Schuck , X. Vinas

Quantized vortices carry the angular momentum in rotating superfluids, and are key to the phenomenon of quantum turbulence. Advances in ultra-cold atom technology enable quantum turbulence to be studied in regimes with both experimental and…

The surface quadrupole mode of an harmonically trapped dipolar Fermi gas is studied in both the hydrodynamic and collisionless regimes. The anisotropy and long range effects of the dipolar force as well as the role of the trapping geometry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-30 Marta Abad , Alessio Recati , Sandro Stringari

We study the pair-breaking effect of rotation on a cold Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover region. In the framework of BCS theory, which is supposed to be qualitatively correct at zero temperature, we find that in a trap rotating around a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-09-24 Michael Urban , Peter Schuck

We study a trapped two-dimensional spin-imbalanced Fermi gas over a range of temperatures. In the moderate temperature regime, associated with current experiments, we find reasonable semi-quantitative agreement with the measured density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-09 Chien-Te Wu , Brandon M. Anderson , Rufus Boyack , K. Levin

We derive the frequency spectrum of the lowest compressional oscillations of a 3D harmonically trapped Fermi superfluid in the presence of a vortex lattice, treated in the diffused vorticity approximation within a hydrodynamic approach. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 Mauro Antezza , Marco Cozzini , Sandro Stringari

Quantum-degenerate Fermi gases provide a remarkable opportunity to study strongly interacting fermions. In contrast to other Fermi systems, such as superconductors, neutron stars or the quark-gluon plasma, these gases have low densities and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Zwierlein , J. R. Abo-Shaeer , A. Schirotzek , C. H. Schunck , W. Ketterle

Rotation is a natural tool in ultracold gases to break time-reversal symmetry, yet its impact on the collective excitations of supersolids remains largely unexplored. We show theoretically that tuning the rotation frequency, rather than the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-13 Malte Schubert , Koushik Mukherjee , Philipp Stürmer , Stephanie Reimann