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Confinement and Superfluidity in one-dimensional Degenerate Fermionic Cold Atoms

arXiv:cond-mat/0505617 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.240402

Abstract

The physical properties of arbitrary half-integer spins fermionic cold atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice are investigated by means of a low-energy approach. Two different superfluid phases are found for depending on whether a discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken or not: an unconfined BCS pairing phase and a confined molecular superfluid instability made of fermions. We propose an experimental distinction between these phases for a gas trapped in an annular geometry. The confined-unconfined transition is shown to belong to the generalized Ising universality class. We discuss on the possible Mott phases at filling.

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