Disorder effects during the evolution from BCS to BEC superfluidity

Details Disorder effects during the evolution from BCS to BEC superfluidity Disorder effects during the evolution from BCS to BEC superfluidity

2009-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4197v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

4 pages, 3 figures

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We describe the effects of disorder on the critical temperature of s-wave superfluids from the BCS to the BEC regime, with direct application to ultracold Fermi atoms. In the BCS regime the pair breaking and phase coherence temperature scales are essentially the same allowing strong correlations between the amplitude and phase of the order parameter. As non-pair breaking disorder is introduced the largely overlapping Cooper pairs conspire to maintain phase coherence such that the critical temperature remains essentially unchanged. However, in the BEC regime the pair breaking and phase coherence temperature scales are very different such that non-pair breaking disorder can affect dramatically phase coherence, and thus the critical temperature, without the requirement of breaking tightly-bound fermion pairs simultaneously. Finally, we find that the superfluid is more robust against weak disorder in the intermediate region between the two regimes.

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