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Quasiparticle excitations in Bose-Fermi mixtures

Quantum Gases 2010-09-02 v3 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We analyze the excitation spectrum of a three-dimensional(3D) Bose-Fermi mixture with tunable resonant interaction parameters and high hyperfine spin multiplets. We focus on a 3-particle vertex describing fermionic and bosonic atoms which can scatter to create fermionic molecules or disassociate. For a single molecular level, in analogy to the single magnetic impurity problem we argue that the low lying excitations of the mean-field theory are described by the Fermi liquid picture with a quasiparticle weight and charge which is justified by a 1/Nψ1/N_\psi expansion, expected to be exact in the limit of infinite degeneracy (or very high fermionic spin) NψN_\psi \to \infty. Our emphasis is placed on the novel conditions for chemical equilibrium and how many-body chemical reactions renormalize the bosonic chemical potential, modifying condensation and superfluid-insulator transitions.

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@article{arxiv.0908.3547,
  title  = {Quasiparticle excitations in Bose-Fermi mixtures},
  author = {Shimul Akhanjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3547},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

9 pages, 6 eps figures. Version accepted for publication

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