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On the specific heat of a fermionic atomic cloud in the unitary regime

Statistical Mechanics 2009-02-20 v3

Abstract

In the unitary regime, when the scattering amplitude greatly exceeds in magnitude the average inter-particle separation, and below the critical temperature thermal properties of an atomic fermionic cloud are governed by the collective modes, specifically the Bogoliubov-Anderson sound modes. The specific heat of an atomic cloud in a elongated trap in particular has a rather compex temperature dependence, which changes from an exponential behavior at very low temperatures (TωT\ll\hbar\omega_{||}), to T\propto T for ωTω\hbar\omega_{||}\ll T \ll \hbar\omega_\perp and then continuosly to T4\propto T^4 at temperatures just below the critical temperature, when the surface modes play a dominant role. Only the low (ωTω\hbar\omega_{||} \ll T \ll \hbar\omega_\perp) and high (ωT<Tc\hbar\omega_\perp \ll T < T_c) temperature power laws are well defined. For the intermediate temperatures one can introduce at most a gradually increasing with temperature exponent.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0503024,
  title  = {On the specific heat of a fermionic atomic cloud in the unitary regime},
  author = {Aurel Bulgac},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0503024},
  year   = {2009}
}

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