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Surface Energy in Cold Asymmetrical Fermion Superfluids

Superconductivity 2009-11-11 v6 Astrophysics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We derive the energy of the surface between the normal and superfluid components of a mixed phase of a system composed of two particle species with different densities. The surface energy is obtained by the integration of the free energy density in the interface between the two phases. We show that the mixed phase remains as the favored ground state over the gapless phase in weak coupling. We find that the surface energy effects emerge only at strong coupling.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0601148,
  title  = {Surface Energy in Cold Asymmetrical Fermion Superfluids},
  author = {Heron Caldas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0601148},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected, published version

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