Published July 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Mixtures of ultracold fermions with unequal masses

  • 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

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 013601-013601.15
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society