Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 78, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.063605
Keywords
Luttinger liquid; phase diagrams; renormalisation; superfluidity; tunnelling
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- DARPA OLE Program
- ARO [W911NF-071-0464, W911NF-07-1-0293]
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We present a theory for a lattice array of weakly coupled one-dimensional ultracold attractive Fermi gases (1D tubes) with spin imbalance, where strong intratube quantum fluctuations invalidate mean-field theory. We first construct an effective field theory, which treats spin-charge mixing exactly, based on the Bethe ansatz solution of the 1D single tube problem. We show that the 1D Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state is a two-component Luttinger liquid, and its elementary excitations are fractional states carrying both charge and spin. We analyze the instability of the 1D FFLO state against intertube tunneling by renormalization group analysis, and find that it flows into either a polarized Fermi liquid or a FFLO superfluid, depending on the magnitude of interaction strength and spin imbalance. We obtain the phase diagram of the quasi-1D system and further determine the scaling of the superfluid transition temperature with intertube coupling.
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