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Adrian E Feiguin1, Matthew P A Fisher
1Microsoft Project Q, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
Abstract:
We propose a model for realizing exotic paired states in cold Fermi gases by using a spin-dependent optical lattice to engineer mismatched Fermi surfaces for each hyperfine species. The BCS phase diagram shows a stable paired superfluid state with coexisting pockets of momentum space with gapless unpaired carriers, similar to the Sarma state in polarized mixtures, but in our case the system is unpolarized. We propose the possible existence of an exotic "Cooper-pair Bose-metal" phase, which has a gap for single fermion excitations but gapless and uncondensed "Cooper-pair" excitations residing on a "Bose surface" in momentum space.
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