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arXiv:cond-mat/0108524 · Physical Review A

Mean-field instability of trapped dilute boson-fermion mixtures

R. Roth, Hans Feldmeier

Published Jan 4, 2002• 85 citations
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Abstract

The influence of boson-boson and boson-fermion interactions on the stability of a binary mixture of bosonic and fermionic atoms is investigated. The density profiles of the trapped mixture are obtained from direct numerical solution of a modified Gross-Pitaevskii equation that is self-consistently coupled to the mean field generated by the interaction with the fermionic species, the fermions which in turn feel the mean field created by the bosons are treated in the Thomas-Fermi approximation. We study the effects of different combinations of signs of the boson-boson and the boson-fermion scattering lengths and determine explicit expressions for critical particle numbers as a function of these scattering lengths.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.65.021603

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