Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-01-25
Phys.Rev.A77:033627,2008
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
15 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033627
Two-component equal-mass Fermi gases, in which unlike atoms interact through a short-range two-body potential and like atoms do not interact, are stable even when the interspecies s-wave scattering length becomes infinitely large. Solving the many-body Schroedinger equation within a hyperspherical framework and by Monte Carlo techniques, this paper investigates how the properties of trapped two-component gases change if a third or fourth component are added. If all interspecies scattering lengths are equal and negative, our calculations suggest that both three- and four-component Fermi gases become unstable for a certain critical set of parameters. The relevant length scale associated with the collapse is set by the interspecies scattering length and we argue that the collapse is, similar to the collapse of an attractive trapped Bose gas, a many-body phenomenon. Furthermore, we consider a three-component Fermi gas in which two interspecies scattering lengths are negative while the other interspecies scattering length is zero. In this case, the stability of the Fermi system is predicted to depend appreciably on the range of the underlying two-body potential. We find parameter combinations for which the system appears to become unstable for a finite negative scattering length and parameter combinations for which the system appears to be made up of weakly-bound trimers that consist of one fermion of each species.
Blume D.
Greene Chris H.
Rittenhouse Seth T.
Stecher Javier von
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