eprintid: 1332993 rev_number: 35 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/33/29/93 datestamp: 2011-12-10 19:06:06 lastmod: 2021-10-09 23:06:41 status_changed: 2011-12-10 19:06:06 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Parish, MM creators_name: Marchetti, FM creators_name: Lamacraft, A creators_name: Simons, BD title: Polarized fermi condensates with unequal masses: Tuning the tricritical point ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 keywords: GAS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, SUPERFLUIDITY, MOLECULES note: © 2007 The American Physical Society abstract: We consider a two-component atomic Fermi gas within a mean-field, single-channel model, where both the mass and population of each component are unequal. We show that the tricritical point at zero temperature evolves smoothly from the BEC to BCS side of the resonance as a function of mass ratio r. We find that the interior gap state proposed by Liu and Wilczek is always unstable to phase separation, while the breached pair state with one Fermi surface for the excess fermions exhibits differences in its density of states and pair correlation functions depending on which side of the resonance it lies. Finally, we show that, when r greater than or similar to 3.95, the finite-temperature phase diagram of trapped gases at unitarity becomes topologically distinct from the equal mass system. date: 2007-04-20 publisher: AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC official_url: http://dx.doi.org/© 2007 The American Physical Society oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_batch elements_source: Web of Science elements_id: 355008 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.160402 language_elements: EN lyricists_name: Parish, Meera lyricists_id: MPARI66 full_text_status: public publication: PHYS REV LETT volume: 98 number: 16 article_number: 160402 issn: 0031-9007 citation: Parish, MM; Marchetti, FM; Lamacraft, A; Simons, BD; (2007) Polarized fermi condensates with unequal masses: Tuning the tricritical point. PHYS REV LETT , 98 (16) , Article 160402. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.160402 <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.160402>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1332993/1/1332993.pdf