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Monte Carlo study of a Fermi gas with infinite scattering length

Quantum Gases 2010-11-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

The Fermi gas at unitarity is a particularly interesting system of cold atoms, being dilute and strongly interacting at the same time. It can be studied non-perturbatively with Monte Carlo methods, like the recently developed worm algorithm. We discuss our implementation and tests of this algorithm and suggest a modification that increases its efficiency by reducing autocorrelations. We then show how the worm algorithm can be applied to calculate the critical temperature of an imbalanced Fermi gas (unequal number of fermions in the two spin components). We finally present some results obtained with the modified algorithm, in the balanced as well as in the imbalanced case.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3909,
  title  = {Monte Carlo study of a Fermi gas with infinite scattering length},
  author = {Olga Goulko and Matthew Wingate},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3909},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages, Poster presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 26-31, 2009, Beijing, China