Tuesday, July 17, 2012

1011.6521 (Arghya Dutta et al.)

Competing order parameters and a tricritical point with a difference    [PDF]

Arghya Dutta, J. K. Bhattacharjee
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.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6521

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