Mixtures of ultracold fermions with unequal masses
Creators
- 1. School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332 (United States)
Description
We analyze the phase diagram of superfluidity for two-species fermion mixtures from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) limit as a function of scattering parameter, population imbalance, and mass anisotropy. We identify regions corresponding to normal, or uniform or nonuniform superfluid phases, and discuss topological quantum phase transitions in the BCS, unitarity, and BEC limits. We derive the Ginzburg-Landau equation near the critical temperature, and show that it describes a dilute mixture of paired and unpaired fermions in the BEC limit. We also obtain the zero temperature low frequency and long wavelength collective excitation spectrum, and recover the Bogoliubov relation for weakly interacting dilute bosons in the BEC limit. Lastly, we discuss the effects of harmonic traps and the resulting density profiles in the BEC regime
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.013601;
- arXiv
- arXiv:cond-mat/0703258v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 76
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 013601-013601.15
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39033559
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANISOTROPY; BCS THEORY; BOGOLYUBOV METHOD; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; BOSONS; COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; FERMIONS; GINZBURG-LANDAU THEORY; MASS; MIXTURES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; SCATTERING; SPECTRA; SUPERFLUIDITY; TRAPS; UNITARITY; WAVELENGTHS; WEAK INTERACTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- BASIC INTERACTIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; DIAGRAMS; DISPERSIONS; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; EXCITATION; INFORMATION; INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2007 The American Physical Society