Stabilized Pair Density Wave via Nanoscale Confinement of Superfluid
- 3 January 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 124 (1), 015301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.015301
Abstract
Superfluid under nanoscale confinement has generated significant interest due to the rich spectrum of phases with complex order parameters that may be stabilized. Experiments have uncovered a variety of interesting phenomena, but a complete picture of superfluid under confinement has remained elusive. Here, we present phase diagrams of superfluid under varying degrees of uniaxial confinement, over a wide range of pressures, which elucidate the progressive stability of both the phase, as well as a growing region of stable pair density wave state.
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Funding Information
- University of Alberta
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN-04523-16, RGPIN-2014-4608, DAS-492947-16, CREATE-495446-17)
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Faculty of Science and Theoretical Physics Institute
- Canada Research Chair Program
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