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Title: Sound velocity and dimensional crossover in a superfluid Fermi gas in an optical lattice

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.73.0· OSTI ID:20786978
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  1. Nanoscience Center, Department of Physics, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014, University of Jyvaeskylae (Finland)

We study the sound velocity in cubic and noncubic three-dimensional optical lattices. We show how the van Hove singularity of the free Fermi gas is smoothed by interactions and eventually vanishes when interactions are strong enough. For noncubic lattices, we show that the speed of sound (Bogoliubov-Anderson phonon) shows clear signatures of dimensional crossover both in the one- and two-dimensional limits.

OSTI ID:
20786978
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 73, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033620; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English