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Deformed Fermi surfaces in ultracold Fermi gases

Armen Sedrakian, Jordi Mur-Petit, Artur Polls, Herbert Müther

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0404577

Abstract

The superfluid transition in an ultracold two-component atomic Fermi gas is analyzed in the case where the two components have different densities. We describe a superfluid state which spontaneously breaks the rotational-symmetry by deforming the Fermi surfaces of both species into ellipsoidal form. At relatively large hyperfine-spin asymmetries, this deformation is shown to help the appearance of pairing, which in the rotationally-symmetric (BCS) case would be forbidden by Pauli blocking. The prospects for experimental detection of such a deformed Fermi surface phase are discussed.

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