BEC-BCS Crossover of a Trapped Two-Component Fermi Gas with Unequal Masses

Details BEC-BCS Crossover of a Trapped Two-Component Fermi Gas with Unequal Masses BEC-BCS Crossover of a Trapped Two-Component Fermi Gas with Unequal Masses

2007-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/0705.0671v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

11 pages, 6 figures, extended version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053613

We determine the energetically lowest lying states in the BEC-BCS crossover regime of s-wave interacting two-component Fermi gases under harmonic confinement by solving the many-body Schrodinger equation using two distinct approaches. Essentially exact basis set expansion techniques are applied to determine the energy spectrum of systems with N=4 fermions. Fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo methods are applied to systems with up to N=20 fermions, and a discussion of different guiding functions used in the Monte Carlo approach to impose the proper symmetry of the fermionic system is presented. The energies are calculated as a function of the s-wave scattering length a_s for N=2-20 fermions and different mass ratios \kappa of the two species. On the BEC and BCS sides, our energies agree with analytically-determined first-order correction terms. We extract the scattering length and the effective range of the dimer-dimer system up to \kappa = 20. Our energies for the strongly-interacting trapped system in the unitarity regime show no shell structure, and are well described by a simple expression, whose functional form can be derived using the local density approximation, with one or two parameters. The universal parameter \xi for the trapped system for various \kappa is determined, and comparisons with results for the homogeneous system are presented.

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