Sound propagation in elongated superfluid fermion clouds

Details Sound propagation in elongated superfluid fermion clouds Sound propagation in elongated superfluid fermion clouds

2005-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509323v1

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021603(R) (2006)

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Condensed Matter

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10.1103/PhysRevA.73.021603

We use hydrodynamic equations to study sound propagation in a superfluid Fermi gas inside a strongly elongated cigar-shaped trap, with main attention to the transition from the BCS to the unitary regime. We treat first the role of the radial density profile in the quasi-onedimensional limit and then evaluate numerically the effect of the axial confinement in a configuration in which a hole is present in the gas density at the center of the trap. We find that in a strongly elongated trap the speed of sound in both the BCS and the unitary regime differs by a factor sqrt{3/5} from that in a homogeneous three-dimensional superfluid. The predictions of the theory could be tested by measurements of sound-wave propagation in a set-up such as that exploited by M.R. Andrews et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 553 (1997)] for an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate.

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