Collective excitation and stability of flow-induced gapless Fermi superfluids
arXiv:1403.5621 · doi:10.7566/JPSJ.84.044003
Abstract
We study the collective excitation and stability of superfluid Fermi gases flowing with a constant velocity in three-dimensional free space. In particular, we investigate a possible gapless superfluid state induced by the superflow using the mean-field theory and the generalized random-phase approximation (GRPA). For weak attractive interactions, we find that the mean-field superfluid order parameter can take a nonzero value even after the superflow velocity exceeds the threshold for the onset of Bogoliubov quasiparticle excitations. Since the Cooper pairs are only partially broken by the quasiparticle excitations, a gapless superfluid state can be formed over a certain range of superflow velocity above the pair-breaking onset. In addition to the usual quasiparticle-pair continuum and the Anderson-Bogoliubov collective mode, the GRPA excitation spectrum of the gapless superfluid state has a quasiparticle-quasihole continuum and a second collective mode. We find that the long-wavelength excitations of the second collective mode eventually cause dynamical instability of the system when the superflow velocity increases. However, the gapless superfluid state still remains stable in a narrow but finite range of superflow velocity.
arXiv comment12 pages, 8 figures
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