Searching for the elusive exotic Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov states in Fermi-Fermi mixtures of ultracold quantum gases
Jibiao Wang, Yanming Che, Leifeng Zhang +1 more
Department of Physics and Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics,Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China andSynergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China(Dated: May 6, 2014)Ultracold two-component Fermi gases with a tunable population imbalance have provided an excellent op-portunity for studying the exotic Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) states, which have been of greatinterest in condensed matter physics. However, the FFLO states have been elusive and not been observed ex-perimentally in Fermi gases in three dimensions (3D), due to their small phase space volume and extremely lowtemperature required for an equal-mass Fermi gas. Here we explore possible effects of mass imbalance, mainlyin a
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