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Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 017001 (2005) [4 pages]

Stability Criteria for Breached-Pair Superfluidity

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Michael McNeil Forbes, Elena Gubankova, W. Vincent Liu, and Frank Wilczek
Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

Received 16 August 2004; published 5 January 2005

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We present simple, concrete, two-fermion models that exhibit thermodynamically stable isotropic translationally invariant gapless superfluid states (breached-pair superfluidity). The mass ratio between the components and the momentum structure of the interaction are crucial for determining the stability of such states: Idealized, momentum-independent (“contact”) interactions are insufficient.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.017001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.017001
PACS:
74.20.Mn, 64.10.+h, 71.27.+a, 74.25.Dw