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Thermodynamic Properties of Rashba Spin-Orbit-Coupled Fermi Gas
We investigate the thermodynamic properties of a superfluid Fermi gas subject
to Rashba spin-orbit coupling and effective Zeeman field. We adopt a T-matrix
scheme that takes beyond-mean-field effects, which are important for strongly
interacting systems, into account. We focus on the calculation of two important
quantities: the superfluid transition temperature and the isothermal
compressibility. Our calculation shows very distinct influences of the
out-of-plane and the in-plane Zeeman fields on the Fermi gas. We also confirm
that the in-plane Zeeman field induces a Fulde-Ferrell superfluid below the
critical temperature and an exotic finite-momentum pseudo-gap phase above the
critical temperature.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
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