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Phonon spectrum and dynamical stability of a quantum degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We calculate the phonon excitation spectrum in a zero-temperature boson-fermion mixture. We show how the sound velocity changes due to the boson-fermion interaction and we determine the dynamical stability regime of a homogeneous mixture. We identify a resonant phonon-exchange interaction between the fermions as the physical mechanism leading to the instability.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0104279,
  title  = {Phonon spectrum and dynamical stability of a quantum degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture},
  author = {Han Pu and Weiping Zhang and Martin Wilkens and Pierre Meystre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0104279},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures