Published November 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

BCS-BEC crossover in a relativistic superfluid and its significance to quark matter

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
  • 2. Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)

Description

The character change of a superfluid state due to the variation of the attractive force is investigated in the relativistic framework with a massive fermion. Two crossovers are found. One is a crossover from the usual BCS state to the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of bound fermion pairs. The other is from the BEC to the relativistic Bose-Einstein condensation (RBEC) of nearly massless bound pairs where antiparticles as well as particles dominate the thermodynamics. Possible realization of the BEC and RBEC states in the quark matter is also pointed out

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 096004-096004.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2005 The American Physical Society