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arXiv:cond-mat/0503256 · Physical Review Letters

Asymmetric Two-Component Fermion Systems in Strong Coupling

Joseph Carlson, Sanjay K. Reddy

Published Aug 2, 2005• 282 citations
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Abstract

We study the phase structure of a dilute two-component Fermi system with attractive interactions as a function of the coupling and a finite number asymmetry or polarization. In weak coupling, a number asymmetry results in phase separation. A mixed phase containing symmetric superfluid matter and an asymmetric normal phase is favored. For strong coupling we show that the stress on the superfluid phase to accommodate a number asymmetry increases. Near the infinite-scattering length, we calculate the single-particle excitation spectrum and the ground-state energy. A picture of weakly interacting quasiparticles emerges for modest polarizations. In this regime a homogeneous phase with a finite population of quasiparticle states characterized by a gapless spectrum is favored over the phase separated state. These states may be realized in cold atom experiments.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.95.060401

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