Unconventional interaction between vortices in a polarized Fermi gas

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2007.09.009zbMATH Open1142.82033arXiv0710.2522OpenAlexW2089233675MaRDI QIDQ2482049FDOQ2482049

Authors: W. Vincent Liu, Yong Baek Kim, Vladimir Stojanović 

Publication date: 16 April 2008

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, a homogeneous superfluid state with a single gapless Fermi surface was predicted to be the ground state of an ultracold Fermi gas with spin population imbalance in the regime of molecular Bose-Einstein condensation. We study vortices in this novel state using a symmetry-based effective field theory, which captures the low-energy physics of gapless fermions and superfluid phase fluctuations. This theory is applicable to all spin-imbalanced ultracold Fermi gases in the superfluid regime, regardless of whether the original fermion pairing interaction is weak or strong. We find a remarkable, unconventional form of the interaction between vortices. The presence of gapless fermions gives rise to a spatially oscillating potential, akin to the RKKY indirect-exchange interaction in non-magnetic metals. We compare the parameters of the effective theory to the experimentally measurable quantities and further discuss the conditions for the verification of the predicted new feature. Our study opens up an interesting question as to the nature of the vortex lattice resulting from the competition between the usual repulsive logarithmic (2D Coulomb) and predominantly attractive fermion-induced interactions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2522

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zbMATH Keywords

vorticeseffective field theorysuperfluiditypolarized Fermi gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

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