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Renormalization flow and universality for ultracold fermionic atoms

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-6020 Innsbruck (Austria)
  2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Philosophenweg 16, D-69120 Heidelberg (Germany)
A functional renormalization-group study for the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)-BCS crossover for ultracold gases of fermionic atoms is presented. We discuss the fixed point which is at the origin of universality for broad Feshbach resonances. All macroscopic quantities depend only on one relevant parameter, the concentration ak{sub F}, besides their dependence on the temperature in units of the Fermi energy. In particular, we compute the universal ratio between molecular and atomic scattering length in vacuum. We also present an estimate to which level of accuracy universality holds for gases of Li and K atoms.
OSTI ID:
21028068
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 76; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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