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arXiv:0706.3143 · Physical Review Letters

First-Order Transition from Superfluid to Bose-Metal State in Systems with Resonant Pairing

Tobias Stauber, J. Ranninger

Published Jul 26, 2007• 5 citations
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Abstract

Systems showing resonant superfluidity, driven by an exchange coupling of strength g between uncorrelated pairs of itinerant fermions and tightly bound ones, undergo a first-order phase transition as g increases beyond some critical value gc. The superfluid phase for g<or=gc is characterized by a gap in the fermionic single-particle spectrum and an acoustic sound-wave-like collective mode of the bosonic resonating fermion pairs inside this gap. For g>gc this state gives way to a phase-uncorrelated bosonic liquid with a q2 spectrum.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.99.045301

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