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Communal pairing in spin-imbalanced Fermi gases

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Foo, DCW 
Whitehead, TM 
Conduit, GJ 

Abstract

A spin-imbalanced Fermi gas with an attractive contact interaction forms a superconducting state whose underlying components are superpositions of Cooper pairs that share minority-spin fermions. This superconducting state includes correlations between all available fermions, making it energetically favorable to the Fulde--Ferrell--Larkin--Ovchinnikov superconducting state. The ratio of the number of up- and down-spin fermions in the instability is set by the ratio of the up- and down-spin density of states in momentum at the Fermi surfaces, to fully utilize the accessible fermions. We present analytical and complementary Diffusion Monte Carlo results for the state.

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Keywords

cond-mat.supr-con, cond-mat.supr-con, cond-mat.str-el

Journal Title

EPL

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Journal ISSN

0295-5075
1286-4854

Volume Title

126

Publisher

IOP Publishing

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The Royal Society (uf130122)
Royal Society (RGF/EA/180034)
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