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arXiv:cond-mat/0610749 · New Journal of Physics

Dynamical collapse in a degenerate binary fermion mixture using a hydrodynamic model

Sadhan K. Adhikari

Published Oct 26, 2006• 12 citations
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Abstract

We use a time-dependent dynamical hydrodynamic model to study a collapse in a degenerate fermion–fermion mixture (DFFM) of different atoms. Due to a strong Pauli-blocking repulsion among identical spin-polarized fermions at short distances, there cannot be a collapse for repulsive interspecies fermion–fermion interaction. However, there can be a collapse for a sufficiently attractive interspecies fermion–fermion interaction in a DFFM of different atoms. Using a variational analysis and numerical solution of the hydrodynamic model, we study different aspects of collapse in such a DFFM initiated by a jump in the interspecies fermion–fermion interaction (scattering length) to a large negative (attractive) value using a Feshbach resonance. Suggestion for experiments of collapse in a DFFM of distinct atoms is made.

DOI
10.1088/1367-2630/8/10/258

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The time evolution of a dilute atomic boson-fermion mixture is studied at zero temperature, when the external magnetic field is brought close to an interspecies Feshbach resonance. On short time scales we find that before a collapse or phase separation of the mixture can occur, oscillations between fermionic atoms and heteronuclear molecules dominate the dynamics. Applying the model presented here to a trapped mixture of ${}^{40}\mathrm{K}{\ensuremath{-}}^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ atoms, we find that the predicted oscillations can be revealed in degenerate mixtures of these atoms.