Published May 20, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Entire set of dynamical excitations of a one-dimensional Fulde-Ferrell-pairing Fermi superfluid based on momentum excitation

  • 1. Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics, College of Physics, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
  • 2. State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China

Description

We theoretically investigate a one-dimensional Fulde-Ferrell Fermi superfluid at a finite effective Zeeman field h and study all of the dynamical excitations related to density perturbation. By calculating the density dynamic structure factor, we find anisotropic dynamical excitations in both collective modes and single-particle excitations. Along the direction of center-of-mass momentum p, there are two obvious gapless collective modes with different speeds and two kinds of continuous regimes related to single-particle excitation. The lower collective modes are from the usual gauge symmetry breaking and have a larger speed than the one in the negative direction of p. The higher one is due to the direction spontaneous symmetry breaking of center-of-mass momentum p and separates a gapless lower-branch single-particle excitation from the other gapped higher-branch single-particle excitation in the positive p direction. However, this higher mode disappears in the opposite direction of p, where two single-particle excitations overlap with each other. These signals of dynamical excitations could help to distinguish a Fulde-Ferrell superfluid from the conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superfluid in future experiments.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.109.053313;
arXiv
arXiv:2401.02269;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100001809; 10.13039/501100012166;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review A
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
8 pgs.
ISSN
1094-1622

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
U23A2073; 11547034; 12374250; 2022YFA1404102
Notes
Contact Email: hszhao@qdu.edu.cn; Contact Email: yuan@qdu.edu.cn; Contact Email: pengshiguo@wipm.ac.cn; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
National Natural Science Foundation of China; National Key Research and Development Program of China