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arXiv:cond-mat/0409088 · Physical Review Letters

Breached Superfluidity via p -Wave Coupling

Elena Gubankova, Eugene G. Mishchenko, Frank A. Wilczek

Published Mar 22, 2005• 37 citations
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Abstract

Anisotropic pairing between fermion species with different Fermi momenta opens two-dimensional areas of gapless excitations, thus producing a spatially homogeneous state with coexisting superfluid and normal fluids. This breached pairing state is stable and robust for arbitrarily small mismatch and weak p-wave coupling.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.94.110402

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