Published June 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Universality and stability for a dilute Bose gas with a Feshbach resonance

  • 1. Department of Physics, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan (China)
  • 2. Department of Physics, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan (China)

Description

We study the bosonic atoms with a wide Feshbach resonance at zero temperature in terms of the renormalization group. We indicate that this system will always collapse in the dilute limit. On the side with a positive scattering length, the atomic superfluid is an unstable local minimum in the dilute limit and it determines the thermodynamics of this system within its lifetime. We calculate the equilibrium properties at zero temperature in the unitary regime. They exhibit universal scaling forms in the dilute limit due to the presence of a nontrivial zero temperature, zero-density fixed point. Moreover, we find that the T=0 thermodynamics of this system in the unitary limit is exactly identical to the one for an ideal Fermi gas.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 063613-063613.6
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42035117
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ATOMS; BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS; EQUILIBRIUM; FERMI GAS; LIFETIME; PHASE STABILITY; RENORMALIZATION; RESONANCE; SCATTERING LENGTHS; SUPERFLUIDITY; TEMPERATURE ZERO K; THERMODYNAMICS
Descriptors DEC
DIMENSIONS; LENGTH; STABILITY

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