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Thermodynamics of a Trapped Unitary Fermi Gas

Statistical Mechanics 2008-11-26 v3 Nuclear Theory Atomic Physics

Abstract

We present the first model-independent comparison of recent measurements of the entropy and of the critical temperature of a unitary Fermi gas, performed by Luo et al., with the most complete results currently available from finite temperature Monte Carlo calculations. The measurement of the critical temperature in a cold fermionic atomic cloud is consistent with a value Tc=0.23(2)epsilonFT_c=0.23(2)epsilon_F in the bulk, as predicted by the present authors in their Monte Carlo calculations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0701786,
  title  = {Thermodynamics of a Trapped Unitary Fermi Gas},
  author = {Aurel Bulgac and Joaquin E. Drut and Piotr Magierski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0701786},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures, published version