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Title: Ferronematic Ground State of the Dilute Dipolar Fermi Gas

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080 (United States)

It is shown that a homogeneous two-component Fermi gas with (long-range) dipolar and short-range isotropic interactions has a ferronematic phase for suitable values of the dipolar and short-range coupling constants. The ferronematic phase is characterized by having a nonzero magnetization and long-range orientational uniaxial order. The Fermi surface of the spin-up (-down) component is elongated (compressed) along the direction of the magnetization.

OSTI ID:
21370838
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 20; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.205301; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English