Phase separation and collapse in Bose-Fermi mixtures with a Feshbach resonance
Abstract
We consider a mixture of single-component bosonic and fermionic atoms with an interspecies interaction that is varied using a Feshbach resonance. By performing a mean-field analysis of a two-channel model, which describes both narrow and broad Feshbach resonances, we find an unexpectedly rich phase diagram at zero temperature: Bose-condensed and non-Bose-condensed phases form a variety of phase-separated states that are accompanied by both critical and tricritical points. We discuss the implications of our results for the experimentally observed collapse of Bose-Fermi mixtures on the attractive side of the Feshbach resonance, and we make predictions for future experiments on Bose-Fermi mixtures close to a Feshbach resonance.
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@article{arxiv.0801.0635,
title = {Phase separation and collapse in Bose-Fermi mixtures with a Feshbach resonance},
author = {F. M. Marchetti and C. Mathy and M. M. Parish and D. A. Huse},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0635},
year = {2008}
}
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7 pages, 3 figures. Extended version