Pairing Instability of Bose Gas with Attractive Interaction
Gun Sang Jeon, Lan Yin, Sung Wu Rhee +1 more
We study the Evans-Imry pairing phase of dilute homogeneous bose gas with attractive interaction. We find that it is generally unstable against fluctuations in pairing. Therefore in addition to the well-known mechanical collapse, the system can also collapse due to the pairing instability. Under certain conditions the critical temperature of pairing instability can be higher than that of mechanical collapse. 1 The system of bose gas with attractive interaction has received a lot of attention recently due to the success in cooling 7 Li [1] and 85 Rb [2] systems. In these trapped systems, Bose Einstein condensation can be realized at zero temperature if the number of atoms in the condensate is below a critical value [3] due to finite size effect. In 7 Li system, the condensate experiences repetitive growth and collapse as the system is cooled down [1]. In 85 Rb system, the interaction can be tuned from being repulsive to being attractive by Feshbach resonance technique. During this process, the system loses particles until the critical number is reached [2].
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