Internal Josephson effect in a Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance
Abstract
We consider a two-component system of Fermi atoms and molecular bosons in the vicinity of a narrow Feshbach resonance. We derive an effective action for the system, which has a term describing coherent tunneling of the molecular bosons into Cooper pairs and vice versa. In the equilibrium regime, phase coherence between atom pairs and molecules may be destroyed by thermal or quantum phase fluctuations. In the nonequilibrium regime, the system may show an internal ac Josephson effect leading to real time oscillations in the number of molecular bosons.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- July 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.013612
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0404125
- Bibcode:
- 2005PhRvA..72a3612G
- Keywords:
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- 03.75.Lm;
- 03.75.Kk;
- 74.50.+r;
- Tunneling Josephson effect Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials solitons vortices and topological excitations;
- Dynamic properties of condensates;
- collective and hydrodynamic excitations superfluid flow;
- Tunneling phenomena;
- point contacts weak links Josephson effects;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 2 figures