Collective modes and superflow instabilities of strongly correlated Fermi superfluids

Details Collective modes and superflow instabilities of strongly correlated Fermi superfluids Collective modes and superflow instabilities of strongly correlated Fermi superfluids

2009-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4474v3

Phys. Rev. A 80, 043612 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

14 pages, 10 figures. Corrected 3d phase diagram. References added. Minor changes in text

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043612

We study the superfluid phase of the one-band attractive Hubbard model of fermions as a prototype of a strongly correlated s-wave fermion superfluid on a lattice. We show that the collective mode spectrum of this superfluid exhibits, in addition to the long wavelength sound mode, a sharp roton mode over a wide range of densities and interaction strengths. We compute the sound velocity and the roton gap within a generalized random phase approximation (GRPA) and show that the GRPA results are in good agreement, at strong coupling, with a spin wave analysis of the appropriate strong-coupling pseudospin model. We also investigate, using this two-pronged approach, the breakdown of superfluidity in the presence of a supercurrent. We find that the superflow can break down at a critical flow momentum via several distinct mechanisms - depairing, Landau instabilities or dynamical instabilities - depending on the dimensionality, the interaction strength and the fermion density. The most interesting of these instabilities is a charge modulation dynamical instability which is distinct from previously studied dynamical instabilities of Bose superfluids. The charge order associated with this instability can be of two types: (i) a commensurate checkerboard modulation driven by softening of the roton mode at the Brillouin zone corner, or, (ii) an incommensurate density modulation arising from superflow-induced finite momentum pairing of Bogoliubov quasiparticles. We elucidate the dynamical phase diagram showing the critical flow momentum of the leading instability over a wide range of fermion densities and interaction strengths and point out implications of our results for experiments on cold atom fermion superfluids in an optical lattice.

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