p-wave superfluidity in mixtures of ultracold Fermi and spinor Bose gases

We reveal that the p-wave superfluid can be realized in a mixture of fermionic and F = 1 bosonic gases. We derive a general set of the gap equations for gaps in the s and p channels. It is found that the spin-spin Bose-Fermi interactions favor the p-wave pairing and naturally suppress the pairing in the s channel. The gap equations for the polar phase of p-wave superfluid fermions are numerically solved. Our study suggests a way to realize a pure p-wave superfluid in a well-controlled environment of atomic physics.