Superfluid transition in disordered dipolar Fermi gases

Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics. 2020. Vol. 102. No. 5. P. 053319 (1)–053319 (8).

Matveenko S. I., Yudson V.I., Altshuler B. L., Shlyapnikov G. V.

We consider a weakly interacting two-component Fermi gas of dipolar particles (magnetic atoms or polar molecules) in two-dimensional geometry. The dipole-dipole interaction (together with the short-range interaction at Feshbach resonances) for dipoles perpendicular to the plane of translational motion may provide a superfluid transition. The dipole-dipole scattering amplitude is momentum dependent, which violates the Anderson theorem that claims the independence of the transition temperature on the presence of weak disorder. We have shown that the disorder can strongly increase the critical temperature (up to 10nK at realistic densities). This opens wide possibilities for the studies of the superfluid regime in weakly interacting Fermi gases, which has not been observed so far.

Keywords: superfluidity

Publication based on the results of: Topics in condensed-matter physics (2020)