Unconventional interaction between vortices in a polarized Fermi gas

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2007.09.009MaRDI QIDQ2482049zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 16 April 2008

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

effective field theorypolarized Fermi gassuperfluidityvortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

In this paper the authors study the intrinsic effect of gapless fermionic excitations on the interaction between vortices in the breached-pairing state. One of the main results established in this paper in the framework of a spin-polarized Fermi gas asserts that, for sufficiently high polarization, the effective interaction between vortices is attractive at short distances and could therefore bring about some new effects, such as the competition between this attractive interaction and the kinetic energy cost. The calculation of the effective vortex interaction potential accompanied by the discussion of its physical relevance concludes the present paper.

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