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arxiv: 1811.07272 · v1 · pith:XX4QMFHSnew · submitted 2018-11-18 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas

Unconventional color superfluidity in ultra-cold fermions: Quintuplet pairing, quintuple point and pentacriticality

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keywords superfluidphasesunconventionalcolorcolor-flipcolor-orbitfermionsfields
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We describe the emergence of color superfluidity in ultra-cold fermions induced by color-orbit and color-flip fields that transform a conventional singlet-pairing s-wave system into an unconventional non-s-wave superfluid with quintuplet pairing. We show that the tuning of interactions, color-orbit and color-flip fields transforms a momentum-independent scalar order parameter into an explicitly momentum-dependent tensor order parameter. We classify all unconventional superfluid phases in terms of the {\it loci} of zeros of their quasi-particle excitation spectrum in momentum space and we identify several Lifshitz-type topological transitions. Furthermore, when boundaries between phases are crossed, non-analyticities in the compressibility arise. We find a quintuple point, which is also pentacritical, where four gapless superfluid phases converge into a fully gapped superfluid phase.

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