The superfluid phase diagrams of a two-dimensional cold polarized Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover are systematically and analytically investigated. In the BCS-Leggett mean-field theory, the transition from unpolarized superfluid phase to normal phase is always of first order. For a homogeneous system, the two critical Zeeman fields and the critical population imbalance are analytically determined in the whole coupling parameter region, and the superfluid-normal mixed phase is shown to be the ground state between the two critical fields. The density profile in the presence of a harmonic trap calculated in the local-density approximation exhibits a shell structure, a superfluid core at the center, and a normal shell outside. For weak interaction, the normal shell contains a partially polarized cloud with constant density difference surrounded by a fully polarized state. For strong interaction, the normal shell is in a fully polarized state with a density profile depending only on the global population imbalance. The difermion bound states can survive in the whole highly imbalanced normal phase.

• Received 21 January 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.033613