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Two-band superfluidity and intrinsic Josephson effect in alkaline-earth-metal Fermi gases across an orbital Feshbach resonance

M. Iskin
Phys. Rev. A 94, 011604(R) – Published 25 July 2016

Abstract

We first show that the many-body Hamiltonian governing the physical properties of an alkaline-earth Yb173 Fermi gas across the recently realized orbital Feshbach resonance is exactly analogous to that of two-band s-wave superconductors with contact interactions; i.e., even though the free-particle bands have a tunable energy offset in between and are coupled by a Josephson-type attractive interband pair scattering, the intraband interactions have exactly the same strength. We then introduce two intraband order parameters within the BCS mean-field approximation and investigate the competition between their in-phase and out-of-phase (i.e., the so-called π-phase) solutions in the entire BCS-BEC evolution at zero temperature.

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  • Received 2 May 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.011604

©2016 American Physical Society

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Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

M. Iskin

  • Department of Physics, Koç University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sarıyer, Istanbul, Turkey

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Vol. 94, Iss. 1 — July 2016

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