Induced p -Wave Pairing in Bose-Fermi Mixtures

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2018-12-19

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 121, issue 25, pp. 1-6

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Cooper pairing caused by an induced interaction represents a paradigm in our description of fermionic superfluidity. Here, we present a strong coupling theory for the critical temperature of p-wave pairing between spin polarized fermions immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate. The fermions interact via the exchange of phonons in the condensate, and our self-consistent theory takes into account the full frequency and momentum dependence of the resulting induced interaction. We demonstrate that both retardation and self-energy effects are important for obtaining a reliable value of the critical temperature. Focusing on experimentally relevant systems, we perform a systematic analysis varying the boson-boson and boson-fermion interaction strength as well as their masses, and identify the most suitable system for realizing a p-wave superfluid. Our results show that such a superfluid indeed is experimentally within reach using light bosons mixed with heavy fermions.

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Kinnunen, J J, Wu, Z & Bruun, G M 2018, ' Induced p -Wave Pairing in Bose-Fermi Mixtures ', Physical Review Letters, vol. 121, no. 25, 253402, pp. 1-6 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.253402