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Pairing and condensation in a resonant Bose-Fermi mixture

Quantum Gases 2010-06-18 v1

Abstract

We study by diagrammatic methods a mixture of single-component bosons and fermions, with boson-fermion coupling tuned by a Fano-Feshbach resonance. For increasing coupling, the growing boson-fermion pairing correlations progressively reduce the boson condensation temperature and make it eventually vanish at a critical coupling. Such quantum critical point depends very weakly on the population imbalance and for vanishing boson densities coincides with that found for the polaron-molecule transition in a strongly imbalanced Fermi gas, thus bridging two quite distinct physical systems.

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@article{arxiv.1001.1971,
  title  = {Pairing and condensation in a resonant Bose-Fermi mixture},
  author = {Elisa Fratini and Pierbiagio Pieri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1971},
  year   = {2010}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures