ULTRACOLD ATOMS TALK Speaker: Ivar Zapata, Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Title: Triplet pair correlations in s-wave superfluids as a signature of the FFLO state Time: Monday, October 31, 14.15 to 15.00 Place: 1520-732 Abstract: We show that triplet pairing correlations are generated in purely s-waves superfluids whenever population imbalance enforces anisotropic Fulde-Ferrell (FF) or inhomogeneous Larkin-Ovchinikov (LO) states. The same set of quasiparticle states contributes to the triplet component and to the polarization, thus spatially correlating them. In the LO case, this set forms a narrow band of Andreev states centered on the nodes of the s-wave order parameter. This picture naturally provides a unifying explanation of previous findings that attractive p-wave interaction stabilizes FFLO states. We also study a similar triplet mixing which occurs when a balanced two-component system displays FFLO type oscillations due to a spin-dependent optical lattice. We discuss how this triplet component can be measured in systems of ultra-cold atoms using a rapid ramp across a p-wave Feshbach resonance. This should provide a smoking gun signature of FFLO states. Nikolaj Zinner ---------------------------- Nikolaj Thomas Zinner, Ph.D. Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Aarhus Ny Munkegade 120 DK-8000 Aarhus C (+45)8942 3653 phone (+45)8612 0740 fax Office: 1520-534 E-mail: zinner@phys.au.dk URL: http://www.phys.au.dk/~zinner