학술논문

Competing order parameters and a tricritical point with a difference
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Physica B, 407, 18, 3722-3726, 2012
Subject
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases
Language
Abstract
We propose a mean-field, phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional with two competing order parameters for a two-component, spin-polarized Fermi gas. This free energy supports a tricritical point which is different from the conventional one and this change offers a correct understanding of the experimental phase diagram of imbalanced Fermi systems (Shin et al, Nature, 2008). The specific heat also happens to be different than in standard theory.
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