First-order transition from superfluid to bose-metal state in systems with resonant pairing.
Systems showing resonant superfluidity, driven by an exchange coupling of strength g between uncorrelated pairs of itinerant fermions and tightly bound ones, undergo a first-order phase transition as g increases beyond some critical value gc. The superfluid phase for g<or=gc is characterized by a gap in the fermionic single-particle spectrum and an acoustic sound-wave-like collective mode of the bosonic resonating fermion pairs inside this gap. For g>gc this state gives way to a phase-uncorrelated bosonic liquid with a q2 spectrum.
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Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain.
Ranninger
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