BCS-BEC crossover and quantum phase transition for 6Li and 40K atoms across Feshbach resonance

Details BCS-BEC crossover and quantum phase transition for 6Li and 40K atoms across Feshbach resonance BCS-BEC crossover and quantum phase transition for 6Li and 40K atoms across Feshbach resonance

2006-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603264v1

Phys. Rev. A. 73, 063607 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.73.063607

We systematically study the BCS-BEC crossover and the quantum phase transition in ultracold 6Li and 40K atoms across a wide Feshbach resonance. The background scattering lengths for 6Li and 40K have opposite signs, which lead to very different behaviors for these two types of atoms. For 40K, both the two-body and the many-body calculations show that the system always has two branches of solutions: one corresponds to a deeply bound molecule state; and the other, the one accessed by the current experiments, corresponds to a weakly bound state with population always dominantly in the open channel. For 6Li, there is only a unique solution with the standard crossover from the weakly bound Cooper pairs to the deeply bound molecules as one sweeps the magnetic field through the crossover region. Because of this difference, for the experimentally accessible state of 40K, there is a quantum phase transition at zero temperature from the superfluid to the normal fermi gas at the positive detuning of the magnetic field where the s-wave scattering length passes its zero point. For 6Li, however, the system changes continuously across the zero point of the scattering length. For both types of atoms, we also give detailed comparison between the results from the two-channel and the single-channel model over the whole region of the magnetic field detuning.

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