Ginzburg-Landau Formalism for 2n-Body Condensation

Abstract

The Ginzburg-Landau formalism is constructed for Fermi superfluidity based on the 2n-body condensation in parallel with the usual Ginzburg-Landau formalism for the Cooper pair condensation. By this formalism, the transition temperature of the 2n-body condensation is given compactly by the zero of coefficient of the quadratic term in the 2n-body condensed order parameter without counting complicated Feynman diagrams for the 2n-body condensation susceptibility. It is shown that the 2n-body condensed state is stabilized in the intermediate- or strong-coupling regime against the BCS state based on the Cooper pair condensation. This theory is applied to the case of the possible superfluid state of cold atomic gases such as ${}^9$Be and ${}^{173}$Yb; the quartet state is possible in the former case, while the sextet state is expected in the latter case. It is predicted that the ${}^{173}$Yb atomic gas so far attained satisfies the condition for the sextet condensed state to be realized.

48 pages, 13 figures, published in September issue of JPSJ 2014 (i.e., one year old)

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