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Normal mass density of a superfluid Fermi gas at unitarity

Quantum Gases 2013-10-25 v2

Abstract

We calculate the normal mass density of a paired Fermi gas at unitarity. The dominant contribution near the superfluid transition is from fermionic quasiparticle excitations, and is thus sensitive to the pairing gap. A comparison with the recent experiment of Sidorenkov et al. suggests that the superfluid gap near the transition temperature is larger than the BCS value, but the data do not permit a quantitative inference of the gap. Calculations of the quenched moment of inertia of a BCS superfluid in a harmonic trap are in reasonable agreement with the earlier experiment of Riedl et al.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3812,
  title  = {Normal mass density of a superfluid Fermi gas at unitarity},
  author = {Gordon Baym and C. J. Pethick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3812},
  year   = {2013}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures, published version