Abstract
We discuss some of the unusual characteristics of a Fermi superfluid formed by Cooper pairing in a system, such as spin-polarized 6Li, which possesses triple nuclear spin degeneracy. In particular we show (a) that the "naive" BCS expression for the transition temperature is (unlike in the usual spin-1/2 case) exact in the low-density limit, and (b) that there must always be a gapless branch of the excitation spectrum even for s-wave pairing, so that the normal density is nonzero at T = 0.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 625-639 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of Low Temperature Physics |
Volume | 109 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1997 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- General Materials Science
- Condensed Matter Physics