High Temperature Expansion Applied to Fermions near Feshbach Resonance
Abstract
We show that, apart from a difference in scale, all of the surprising recently observed properties of a degenerate Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance persist in the high temperature Boltzmann regime. In this regime, the Feshbach resonance is unshifted. By sweeping across the resonance, a thermal distribution of bound states (molecules) can be reversibly generated. Throughout this process, the interaction energy is negative and continuous. We also show that this behavior must persist at lower temperatures unless there is a phase transition as the temperature is lowered. We rigorously demonstrate universal behavior near the resonance.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.160404
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0306187
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhRvL..92p0404H
- Keywords:
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- 03.75.Ss;
- 34.50.-s;
- Degenerate Fermi gases;
- Scattering of atoms and molecules;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 4 figures (3 color, 1 BW), RevTeX4