Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2007-03-16
Phys. Rev. A 76, 023614 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
The expurgated version; accepted for publication in PRA
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.023614
In the strong-coupling BEC region where a Feshbach resonance gives rise to tightly-bound dimer molecules, we show that a spin-polarized Fermi superfluid reduces to a simple Bose-Fermi mixture of Bose-condensed dimers and the leftover unpaired fermions. Using a many-body functional integral formalism, the Gaussian fluctuations give rise to an induced dimer-dimer interaction mediated by the unpaired fermions, with the dimer-fermion vertex being given by the (mean-field) Born approximation. Treating the pairing fluctuations to quartic order, we show how the action for a spin-polarized Fermi superfluid reduces to one for a Bose-Fermi mixture. This Bose-Fermi action includes an expression for the effective dimer-unpaired fermion interaction in a spin-polarized Fermi superfluid beyond the Born approximation, in the superfluid phase at finite temperatures. In the low-density limit, we show how this dimer-fermion interaction gives the s-wave scattering length $a_{BF}=1.18a_F$ ($a_F$ is the s-wave fermion scattering length), a result first derived by Skorniakov and Ter-Martirosian in 1957 for three interacting fermions.
Griffin Allan
Ohashi Yoji
Taylor Edward
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