Exotic paired states with anisotropic spin-dependent Fermi surfaces

Details Exotic paired states with anisotropic spin-dependent Fermi surfaces Exotic paired states with anisotropic spin-dependent Fermi surfaces

2009-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/0903.2656v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025303 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

4 pages, 3 figs

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.025303

We propose a model for realizing exotic paired states in cold atomic Fermi gases. By using a {\it spin dependent} optical lattice it is possible to engineer spatially anisotropic Fermi surfaces for each hyperfine species, that are rotated 90 degrees with respect to one another. We consider a balanced population of the fermions with an attractive interaction. We explore the BCS mean field phase diagram as a function of the anisotropy, density, and interaction strength, and find the existence of an unusual paired superfluid state with coexisting pockets of momentum space with gapless unpaired carriers. This state is a relative of the Sarma or breached pair states in polarized mixtures, but in our case the Fermi gas is unpolarized. We also propose the possible existence of an exotic paired "Cooper-pair Bose-Metal" (CPBM) phase, which has a gap for single fermion excitations but gapless and uncondensed "Cooper pair" excitations residing on a "Bose-surface" in momentum space.

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