arXiv:1510.05286

Functional RG for imbalanced many-fermion systems

Boris Krippa

Published Oct 18, 2015• 0 citations

Abstract

The Functional Renormalisation Group approach is applied the imbalanced many-fermion systems. The system is found to exhibit the first order phase transition from the superfluid to normal phase when the density (chemical potential) mismatch becomes larger then some critical values. The perspectives of using fermionic cold atoms to study nuclear/quark matter is briefly discussed.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.05286

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