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Springer Verlag, Frontiers of Physics, 5(12)

DOI: 10.1007/s11467-017-0681-y

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Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov pairing states between $s$- and $p$-orbital fermions

Journal article published in 2016 by Shu-Yang Wang, Jing-Wei Jiang ORCID, Yue-Ran Shi, Qiongyi He, Qihuang Gong, Wei Zhang
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Abstract

We study pairing states in an largely imbalanced two-component Fermi gas loaded in an anisotropic two-dimensional optical lattice, where the spin up and spin down fermions filled to the $s$- and $p_x$-orbital bands, respectively. We show that due to the relative inversion of band structures of the $s$ and $p_x$ orbitals, the system favors pairing between two fermions on the same side of the Brillouin zone, leading to a large stable regime for states with finite center-of-mass momentum, i.e., the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state. In particular, when the two Fermi surfaces are close in momentum space, a nesting effect stabilizes a special kind of $π$-FFLO phase with spatial modulation of $π$ along the easily tunneled $x$-direction. We map out the zero temperature phase diagrams within mean-field approach for various aspect ratio within the two-dimensional plane, and calculate the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition temperatures $T_{\rm BKT}$ for different phases. ; Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures