Paired states in spin-imbalanced atomic Fermi gases in one dimension

A growing expertise to engineer, manipulate, and probe different cold-atom analogs of electronic condensed-matter systems allows to probe properties of exotic pairing. We study paired states of spin-imbalanced ultracold atomic system of fermions with attractive short-range interactions in one-dimensional traps. Calculations are done using the Bethe ansatz technique, and the trap is incorporated into the solution via a local-density approximation. The thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations are solved numerically and different local-density profiles are calculated for zero and finite temperatures. A procedure to identify the homogeneous-system phase diagram using local-density profiles in the trap is also proposed. Such scheme would be immediately useful for the experiments.