Establishing the Presence of Coherence in Atomic Fermi Superfluids: Spin-Flip and Spin-Preserving Bragg Scattering at Finite Temperatures
Abstract
We show how in ultracold Fermi gases the difference between the finite temperature T structure factors, called S-(ω,q), associated with spin and density, reflects coherent order at all ω, q, kFa, and T. This observation can be exploited in two photon Bragg scattering experiments on gases which are subject to variable attractive interactions. Our calculations incorporate spin and particle number conservation laws which lead to compatibility at general T with two f-sum rules. Because of its generality a measurement of S-(ω,q) can be a qualitative, direct, in situ approach for establishing superfluid order.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 2010
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1003.1975
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvL.105l0401G
- Keywords:
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- 05.30.Fk;
- 03.75.Hh;
- 03.75.Ss;
- 74.20.-z;
- Fermion systems and electron gas;
- Static properties of condensates;
- thermodynamical statistical and structural properties;
- Degenerate Fermi gases;
- Theories and models of superconducting state;
- Physics - Atomic Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases
- E-Print:
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120401 (2010)