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Breakdown of universality for unequal-mass Fermi gases with infinite scattering length

Quantum Gases 2015-05-19 v2

Abstract

We treat small trapped unequal-mass two-component Fermi gases at unitarity within a non-perturbative microscopic framework and investigate the system properties as functions of the mass ratio κ\kappa, and the numbers N1N_{1} and N2N_2 of heavy and light fermions. While equal-mass Fermi gases with infinitely large interspecies s-wave scattering length asa_s are universal, we find that unequal mass Fermi gases are, for sufficiently large κ\kappa and in the regime where Efimov physics is absent, not universal. In particular, the (N1,N2)=(2,1)(N_1,N_2)=(2,1) and (3,1)(3,1) systems exhibit three-body (3b) and four-body (4b) resonances at κ=12.314(2)\kappa = 12.314(2) and 10.4(2)10.4(2), respectively, as well as surprisingly large finite-range (FR) effects. These findings have profound implications for ongoing experimental efforts and quantum simulation proposals that utilize unequal-mass atomic Fermi gases.

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@article{arxiv.1006.5002,
  title  = {Breakdown of universality for unequal-mass Fermi gases with infinite scattering length},
  author = {D. Blume and K. M. Daily},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.5002},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures