Date/Time: Thu Feb 05 2026 at 14:00<br/><br/>Location: Auditorium / remote<br/><br/>Speaker: Dean Lee (Michigan State Univ. - FRIB)<br/><br/>Title: Evidence for multimodal superfluidity of neutrons<br/><br/>Abstract: I present theoretical and experimental evidence for a new phase of matter in neutron-rich systems called multimodal superfluidity. Using ab initio lattice calculations, our team has shown that the condensate consists of coexisting S-wave pairs, P-wave pairs, and quartets composed of bound states of two S-wave pairs. We identify multimodal superfluidity as a general feature of two-component fermionic systems with attractive S-wave and P-wave interactions, provided the system is stable against collapse into a dense droplet. Beyond neutrons at sub-saturation densities, we demonstrate that this phase appears in generalized attractive Hubbard models across 1D, 2D, and 3D. We elucidate the mechanism for this coexistence using self-consistent few-body Cooper models and make comparisons and contrasts with standard Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory. We also derive the form of the effective action and show that spin, rotational, and parity symmetries remain unbroken. Finally, we analyze experimental data to show that P-wave pair gaps and quartet gaps are present in atomic nuclei, and we discuss the consequences of this new phase for neutron star crusts and cooling.
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Meeting ID: 817 7085 9439
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