Short-range correlations and entropy in ultracold atomic Fermi gases

Details Short-range correlations and entropy in ultracold atomic Fermi gases Short-range correlations and entropy in ultracold atomic Fermi gases

2009-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/0905.1836v1

Phys. Rev. A 80, 023615 (2009).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

6 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.80.023615

We relate short-range correlations in ultracold atomic Fermi gases to the entropy of the system over the entire temperature, $T$, vs. coupling strength, $-1/k_Fa$, plane. In the low temperature limit the entropy is dominated by phonon excitations and the correlations increase as $T^4$. In the BEC limit, we calculate a boson model within the Bogoliubov approximation to show explicitly how phonons enhance the fermion correlations. In the high temperature limit, we show from the virial expansion that the correlations decrease as $1/T$. The correlations therefore reach a maximum at a finite temperature. We infer the general structure of the isentropes of the Fermi gas in the $T,-1/k_Fa$ plane, and the temperature dependence of the correlations in the unitary, BEC, and BCS limits. Our results compare well with measurements of the correlations via photoassociation experiments at higher temperatures.

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