TY - JOUR
T1 - Superfluid phase transition and strong-coupling effects in an ultracold fermi gas with mass imbalance
AU - Hanai, R.
AU - Kashimura, T.
AU - Watanabe, R.
AU - Inotani, Daisuke
AU - Ohashi, Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements We thank S. Watabe and Y. Endo for useful discussions. This work was partially supported by Institutional Program for Young Researcher Oversea Visits from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Y.O. was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific research from MEXT in Japan (22540412, 23104723, 23500056).
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - We investigate the superfluid phase transition and effects of mass imbalance in the BCS (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer)-BEC (Bose-Einstein condensation) crossover regime of an cold Fermi gas.We point out that the Gaussian fluctuation theory developed by Nozières and Schmitt-Rink and the T -matrix theory, that are now widely used to study strong-coupling physics of cold Fermi gases, give unphysical results in the presence of mass imbalance. To overcome this problem, we extend the T -matrix theory to include higher-order pairing fluctuations. Using this, we examine how the mass imbalance affects the superfluid phase transition. Since the mass imbalance is an important key in various Fermi superfluids, such as 40K-6Li Fermi gas mixture, exciton condensate, and color superconductivity in a dense quark matter, our results would be useful for the study of these recently developing superfluid systems.
AB - We investigate the superfluid phase transition and effects of mass imbalance in the BCS (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer)-BEC (Bose-Einstein condensation) crossover regime of an cold Fermi gas.We point out that the Gaussian fluctuation theory developed by Nozières and Schmitt-Rink and the T -matrix theory, that are now widely used to study strong-coupling physics of cold Fermi gases, give unphysical results in the presence of mass imbalance. To overcome this problem, we extend the T -matrix theory to include higher-order pairing fluctuations. Using this, we examine how the mass imbalance affects the superfluid phase transition. Since the mass imbalance is an important key in various Fermi superfluids, such as 40K-6Li Fermi gas mixture, exciton condensate, and color superconductivity in a dense quark matter, our results would be useful for the study of these recently developing superfluid systems.
KW - BCS-BEC crossover
KW - Fermi superfluid
KW - Mass imbalanced
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U2 - 10.1007/s10909-012-0738-9
DO - 10.1007/s10909-012-0738-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84892966769
SN - 0022-2291
VL - 171
SP - 389
EP - 396
JO - Journal of Low Temperature Physics
JF - Journal of Low Temperature Physics
IS - 3-4
ER -