BCS-BEC crossover and thermodynamics in asymmetric nuclear matter with pairings in isospin I=0 and I=1 channels
- Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)
The Bardeen/Cooper/Schrieffer-Bose-Einstein condensation (BCS-BEC) crossover and phase diagram for asymmetric nuclear superfluid with pairings in isospin I=0 and I=1 channels are investigated at the mean-field level by using a density-dependent nucleon-nucleon potential. Induced by the in-medium nucleon mass and density-dependent coupling constants, neutron-proton Cooper pairs could be in BEC state at sufficiently low density, but there is no chance for the BEC formation of neutron-neutron and proton-proton pairs at any density and asymmetry. We calculate the phase diagram in asymmetry-temperature plane for weakly interacting nuclear superfluid and find that including the I=1 channel changes significantly the phase structure at low temperature. There appears a new phase with both I=0 and I=1 pairings at low temperature and low asymmetry, and the gapless state in any phase with I=1 pairing is washed out and all excited nucleons are fully gapped.
- OSTI ID:
- 21199608
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 79, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.79.034304; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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