Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Abstract
We map out the detuning-magnetization phase diagram for a magnetized (unequal number of atoms in two pairing hyperfine states) gas of fermionic atoms interacting via an s-wave Feshbach resonance (FR). The phase diagram is dominated by the coexistence of a magnetized normal gas and a singlet-paired superfluid with the latter exhibiting a BCS-Bose Einstein condensate crossover with reduced FR detuning. On the BCS side of strongly overlapping Cooper pairs, a sliver of finite-momentum paired Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov magnetized phase intervenes between the phase-separated and normal states. In contrast, for large negative detuning a uniform, polarized superfluid, that is, a coherent mixture of singlet Bose-Einstein-condensed molecules and fully magnetized single-species Fermi sea, is a stable ground state.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Physical Review Letters
Recommended Citation
Sheehy, D., & Radzihovsky, L. (2006). BEC-BCS Crossover in "magnetized" Feshbach-Resonantly Paired Superfluids. Physical Review Letters, 96 (6) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.060401