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We analyze the zero temperature phase diagram for an asymmetric two-component Fermi gas as a function of mass anisotropy and population imbalance. We identify regions corresponding to normal, or uniform/non-uniform superfluid phases, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Iskin , C. A. R. Sa de Melo

The equation of state of the partially polarized two component Fermi gas at zero temperature in the unitary limit is computed by {\it ab initio} auxiliary field Monte Carlo method. We obtain the critical ratio of the chemical potentials…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Y. Chang

The equation of state of a dilute two-component asymmetric Fermi gas at unitarity is subject to strong constraints, which affect the spatial density profiles in atomic traps. These constraints require the existence of at least one…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-26 Aurel Bulgac , Michael McNeil Forbes

Superfluidity in atomic Fermi gases with population imbalance has recently become an exciting research focus. There is considerable disagreement in the literature about the appropriate stability conditions for states in the phase diagram…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-13 Qijin Chen , Yan He , Chih-Chun Chien , K. Levin

The zero-temperature phase diagrams of imbalanced fermions in 3D optical lattices are investigated to evaluate the validity of the Fermi-Hubbard model. It is found that depending on the filling factor, s-wave scattering strength and lattice…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-05-25 Xiaoling Cui , Yupeng Wang

We examine the effect of the trapping potential on the critical temperature, $T_C$, for the BCS transition to a superfluid state in trapped atomic gases of fermions. $T_C$ for an arbitrary power law trap is calculated in the Thomas-Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. P. Search , H. Pu , W. Zhang , B. P. Anderson , P. Meystre

The superfluid phase diagrams of a two-dimensional cold polarized Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover are systematically and analytically investigated. In the BCS-Leggett mean field theory, the transition from unpolarized superfluid phase to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-08 Lianyi He , Pengfei Zhuang

From sand piles to electrons in metals, one of the greatest challenges in modern physics is to understand the behavior of an ensemble of strongly interacting particles. A class of quantum many-body systems such as neutron matter and cold…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-01 Sylvain Nascimbène , Nir Navon , Kaijun Jiang , Frédéric Chevy , Christophe Salomon

We study the phase diagram of mass- and spin-imbalanced unitary Fermi gases, in search for the emergence of spatially inhomogeneous phases. To account for fluctuation effects beyond the mean-field approximation, we employ renormalization…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 Dietrich Roscher , Jens Braun , Joaquín E. Drut

We investigate theoretically the properties of a trapped gas of fermionic atoms in both the normal and the superfluid phases. Our analysis, which accounts for the shell structure of the normal phase spectrum, identifies two observables…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Georg M. Bruun , Charles W. Clark

We consider a trapped unbalanced Fermi gas at nonzero temperatures where the superfluid Sarma phase is stable. We determine in particular the phase boundaries between the superfluid, normal, and phase separated regions of the trapped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-19 K. B. Gubbels , M. W. J. Romans , H. T. C. Stoof

We in this paper investigate the phase diagram associated with the BCS-BEC crossover of a three-component ultracold superfluid-Fermi-gas of different chemical-potentials and equal masses in two dimensions. The gap order parameter and number…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-04 Jiajia Du , Junjun Liang , J. -Q. Liang

We calculate the critical temperature of a superfluid phase transition in a polarized Fermi gas of dipolar particles. In this case the order parameter is anisotropic and has a nontrivial energy dependence. Cooper pairs do not have a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. A. Baranov , M. S. Mar'enko , Val. S. Rychkov , G. V. Shlyapnikov

We investigate a spinless Fermi gas trapped in a honeycomb optical lattice with attractive nearest-neighbor interactions. At zero temperature, mean-field theory predicts three quantum phase transitions, two being topological. At low…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Dario Poletti , Christian Miniatura , Benoit Gremaud

We describe the quantum phase transition of a Fermi gas occurring when the quasiparticle excitation energy has a minimum in momentum space which crosses zero on a sphere of radius k_0 \neq 0. The quasiparticles have a universal interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-03-24 Kun Yang , Subir Sachdev

We study s-wave pairing of population imbalanced Fermi atoms in quasi two dimensions using a mean field theory. At zero temperature, we map out the phase diagram in the entire Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer-Bose Einstein condensation…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-03 Theja N. De Silva

We examine the superfluid and collapse instabilities of a quasi two-dimensional gas of dipolar fermions aligned by an orientable external field. It is shown that the interplay between the anisotropy of the dipolar interaction, the geometry…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-11 G. M. Bruun , E. Taylor

We discuss the generic phase diagrams of pure systems that remain fluid near zero temperature. We call this phase a quantum fluid. We argue that the signature of the transition is the change of sign of the chemical potential, being negative…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-09-09 Victor Romero-Rochin

We study the finite temperature $T$ behavior of trapped Fermi gases as they undergo BCS-Bose Einstein condensation (BEC) crossover, in the presence of a population imbalance. Our results, in qualitative agreement with recent experiments,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-13 Chih-Chun Chien , Qijin Chen , Yan He , K. Levin

We consider a generic two-dimensional system of fermionic particles with attractive interactions and no disorder. If time-reversal symmetry is absent, it is possible to obtain incompressible insulating states in addition to the superfluid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-12 Predrag Nikolic