Quantum Monte Carlo studies of superfluid Fermi gases
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (United States)
We report results of quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the ground state of dilute Fermi gases with attractive short-range two-body interactions. The strength of the interaction is varied to study different pairing regimes which are characterized by the product of the s-wave scattering length and the Fermi wave vector, ak{sub F}. We report results for the ground-state energy, the pairing gap {delta}, and the quasiparticle spectrum. In the weak-coupling regime, 1/ak{sub F}<-1, we obtain Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superfluid and the energy gap {delta} is much smaller than the Fermi gas energy E{sub FG}. When a>0, the interaction is strong enough to form bound molecules with energy E{sub mol}. For 1/ak{sub F} > or approx. 0.5, we find that weakly interacting composite bosons are formed in the superfluid gas with {delta} and gas energy per particle approaching E{sub mol}/2. In this region, we seem to have Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of molecules. The behavior of the energy and the gap in the BCS-to-BEC transition region, -0.5<1/ak{sub F}<0.5, is discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 20646396
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 70, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.043602; (c) 2004 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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