Stability and sensitivity of interacting fermionic superfluids to quenched disorder

  • The microscopic pair structure of superfluids has profound consequences on their properties. Delocalized pairs are predicted to be less affected by static disorder than localized pairs. Ultracold gases allow tuning the pair size via interactions, where for resonant interaction superfluids show largest critical velocity, i.e., stability against perturbations. The sensitivity of such fluids to strong, time-dependent disorder is less explored. Here, we investigate ultracold, interacting Fermi gases across various interaction regimes after rapid switching optical disorder potentials. We record the ability for quantum hydrodynamic expansion of the gas to quantify its long-range phase coherence. Contrary to static expectations, the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) exhibits significant resilience against disorder quenches, while the resonantly interacting Fermi gas permanently loses quantum hydrodynamics. Our findings suggest an additional absorption channel perturbing the resonantly interacting gas as pairs can be directly affected by the disorder quench.

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Author:Jennifer Koch, Sian Barbosa, Felix Lang, Artur Widera
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-96620
ISSN:2041-1723
Parent Title (English):Nature Communications
Publisher:Springer
Document Type:Article
Language of publication:English
Date of Publication (online):2024/10/28
Year of first Publication:2024
Publishing Institution:Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
Date of the Publication (Server):2026/02/26
Issue:15 / 1
Page Number:9
Source:10.1038/s41467-024-51903-8
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Physik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 530 Physik
Collections:Open-Access-Publikationsfonds
Licence (German):Lizenz nach Originalpublikation