Pairing of Fermions with Arbitrary Spin

Tin-Lun Ho and Sungkit Yip
Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 247 – Published 11 January 1999
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Abstract

Motivated by the recent success of optical trapping of alkali Bose condensate, we have studied the superfluid state of optically trapped alkali fermions, which can have Cooper pairs with total spin J2. In this paper, we shall discuss the general structure of these large spin Cooper pairs and their close relation with singlet Cooper pairs with nonzero orbital angular momentum. We also present the exact solution for the J=2 pairing which shows a surprising change of ground state as the spin f of the constituent fermion increases.

  • Received 21 August 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.247

©1999 American Physical Society

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Tin-Lun Ho1,2 and Sungkit Yip1

  • 1Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
  • 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106

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Vol. 82, Iss. 2 — 11 January 1999

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