Pairing in fermion systems with unequal masses: Nonperturbative renormalisation group approach

The application of the nonperturbative renormalisation group approach to a system with two fermion species is studied. Assuming a simple ansatz for the effective action with effective bosons, describing pairing effects we derive a set of approximate flow equations for the effective coupling including boson and fertmonic fluctuations. The case of two fertnions with different masses but coinciding Fermi surfaces is considered. The phase transition to a phase with broken symmetry is found at a critical value of the running scale. The large mass difference is found to disfavour the formation of pairs. The mean-field results are recovered if the effects of boson loops are omitted. While the boson fluctuation effects were found to be negligible for large values Of PFa they become increasingly important with decreasing PFa thus making the mean field description less accurate. (c) 2006 Published by Elsevier B.V.