arXiv · 1409.0282
Calibration of Interaction Energy between Bose and Fermi Superfluids
Abstract
In this letter we study the interaction energy in a mixture of Bose and Fermi superfluids realized in recent cold atom experiment. On the Bose-Einstein-condensate (BEC) side of a Feshbach resonance between fermionic atoms, this interaction energy can be directly related to the scattering length between a bosonic atom and a dimer composed of fermions. We calculate the atom-dimer scattering length from a three-body analysis with both a zero-range model and a separable model including the van der Waals length scale, and we find significant deviation from the result given by a mean-field approach. We also find that the multiple scattering between atom and dimer can account for such a deviation. Our results provide a calibration to the mean-field interaction energy, which can be verified by measuring the shift of collective oscillation frequency.
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Ren Zhang, Wei Zhang, Hui Zhai, Peng Zhang. 2014-12-17. Calibration of Interaction Energy between Bose and Fermi Superfluids. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.90.063614
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