arXiv · cond-mat/0409756
Fermion-mediated BCS-BEC Crossover in Ultracold Potassium-40 Gases
Abstract
Studies of Feshbach resonance phenomena in fermionic alkali gases have drawn heavily on the intuition afforded by a Fermi-Bose theory which presents the Feshbach molecule as a featureless Bose particle. While this model may provide a suitable platform to explore the lithium-6 system, we argue that its application to potassium-40, where the hyperfine structure is inverted, is inappropriate. Introducing a three-state Fermi model, where a spin state is shared by the open and closed channel states, we show that effects of ``Pauli blocking'' are recorded in the internal structure of the condensate wave function.
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M. M. Parish, B. Mihaila, B. D. Simons, P. B. Littlewood. 2005-06-30. Fermion-mediated BCS-BEC Crossover in Ultracold Potassium-40 Gases. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.94.240402
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