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arxiv: 1211.2470 · v2 · pith:ZZQUM4M4new · submitted 2012-11-11 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas · cond-mat.supr-con· nucl-th

BCS-BEC quantum phase transition and collective excitations in two-dimensional Fermi gases with p- and d-wave pairings

classification ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.supr-connucl-th
keywords quantumphasetransitionfermionicbcs-becd-wavepairingsystems
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It is generally believed that the BCS-BEC evolution in fermionic systems with s-wave pairing is a smooth crossover. However, for nonzero orbital-angular-momentum pairing such as p- or d-wave pairing, the system undergoes a quantum phase transition at the point where the chemical potential $\mu$ vanishes. In this paper, we study the BCS-BEC quantum phase transition and the collective excitations associated with the order-parameter fluctuations in two-dimensional fermionic systems with p- and d-wave pairings. We show that the quantum phase transition in such systems can be generically traced back to the infrared behavior of the fermionic excitation at $\mu=0$: $E_{\bf k}\sim k^l$, where $l=1,2$ is the quantum number of the orbital angular momentum. The nonanalyticity of the thermodynamic quantities is due to the infrared divergence caused by the fermionic excitation at $\mu=0$. As a result, the evolution of the Anderson-Bogoliubov mode is not smooth: Its velocity is nonanalytical across the quantum phase transition.

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