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Crossover temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation in an atomic Fermi gas

Statistical Mechanics 2011-08-12 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We show that in an atomic Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance the crossover between a Bose-Einstein condensate of diatomic molecules and a Bose-Einstein condensate of Cooper pairs occurs at positive detuning, i.e., when the molecular energy level lies in the two-atom continuum. We determine the crossover temperature as a function of the applied magnetic field and find excellent agreement with the experiment of Regal et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040403 (2004)] that has recently observed this crossover temperature.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402579,
  title  = {Crossover temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation in an atomic Fermi gas},
  author = {G. M. Falco and H. T. C. Stoof},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402579},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures