Classical Magnetic Impurity in Ultracold Fermi Superfluids
Abstract
In cold atom experiments, we have tools to create spin dependent optical potential, which gives us the possibility to achieve classical magnetic impurity in cold atom systems. Here we study the physics of magnetic impurity. A localized magnetic impurity can induce a mid-gap bound state, the Yu-Shiba state, in superfluid Fermi gas. We propose a modified RF spectroscopy to measure the local density of states, as a cold-atom analog of STM, which may be used to detect Yu-Shiba state. In addition, magnetic impurity can locally induce population imbalance in the system, potentially providing a method to realize FFLO-like state in a controlled way. We demonstrate such a possibility by solving the self-consist Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations.
This work is supported by the NSF, the Welch Foundation and the DARPA OLE Program.- Publication:
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APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- May 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011APS..DMP.H1008J