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Pair correlations in the normal phase of an attractive Fermi gas

Quantum Gases 2020-08-27 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. A 99, 053617 (2019)], the total number of fermion pairs in a spin-balanced two-component Fermi gas of 6^6Li atoms was experimentally probed in the normal phase above the superfluid critical temperature, in order to investigate the sectors of pseudogap and preformed-pair in the temperature-coupling phase diagram. Here, we present a theoretical account of these experimental results in terms of an ab-initio self-consistent tt-matrix calculation, which emphasizes the role of the pair-correlation function between opposite-spin fermions at equilibrium. Good agreement is found between the available experimental data and the theoretical results obtained with no adjustable parameter.

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@article{arxiv.1912.04802,
  title  = {Pair correlations in the normal phase of an attractive Fermi gas},
  author = {M. Pini and P. Pieri and M. Jäger and J. Hecker Denschlag and G. Calvanese Strinati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04802},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, 11 figures