Universal Fermi Gas with Two- and Three-Body Resonances
- Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1550 (United States)
We consider a Fermi gas with two components of different masses, with the s-wave two-body interaction tuned to unitarity. In the range of mass ratio 8.62<M/m<13.6, it is possible for a short-range interaction between heavy fermions to produce a resonance in a three-body channel. The resulting system is scale invariant and has universal properties, and is very strongly interacting. When M/m is slightly above the lower limit 8.62, the ground state energy of a 2 ratio 1 mixture of heavy and light fermions is less than 2% of the energy of a noninteracting gas with the same number densities. We derive exact relationships between the pressures of the unitary Fermi gases with and without three-body resonance when the mass ratio is close to the critical values of 8.62 and 13.6.
- OSTI ID:
- 21123629
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.090405; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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