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arXiv:1207.2856 · Physical Review A

Medium effects close to s - and p -wave Feshbach resonances in atomic Fermi gases

Renyuan Liao, Khandker Quader

Published Jul 10, 2012• 1 citation
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Abstract

Many-body effects may influence properties, such as scattering parameters, nature of pairing, etc., close to a Feshbach resonance in the fermion BEC-BCS crossover problem. We study effects such as these using a tractable crossing-symmetric approach. This method allow us to include quantum fluctuations, such as density, current, spin, spin-current, and the higher-order fluctuations in a self-consistent fashion. The underlying fermion interaction is reflected in the ``driving'' term. We perform calculations here on both Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and BCS sides and taking the driving term to be finite range and of arbitrary strength. These are related to two-body singlet and triplet scattering parameters and can be connected with experimental $s$- and $p$-wave Feshbach resonances. We include the $\ensuremath{\ell}=0$ density and spin fluctuations as well as $\ensuremath{\ell}=1$ current and spin-current fluctuations. We calculate renormalized scattering amplitudes, pairing amplitudes, nature of pairing, etc., on both the BEC and BCS sides. We then compare our results qualitatively with experiments.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.86.012704

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