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Stability and pairing in quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures
Francesca M Marchetti1, Th Jolicoeur, Meera M Parish
1Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain. francesca.marchetti@uam.es
Abstract:
We consider a mixture of single-component bosonic and fermionic atoms in an array of coupled one-dimensional "tubes." For an attractive Bose-Fermi interaction, we show that the system exhibits phase separation instead of the usual collapse. Moreover, above a critical intertube hopping, all first-order instabilities disappear in both attractive and repulsive mixtures. The possibility of suppressing instabilities in this system suggests a route towards the realization of paired phases, including a superfluid of p-wave pairs unique to the coupled-tube system, and quantum critical phenomena.
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