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Motivated by recent developments on cold atom traps and high density QCD we consider fermionic systems composed of two particle species with different densities. We argue that a mixed phase composed of normal and superfluid components is…

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We present an {\it ab initio} calculation of small numbers of trapped, strongly interacting fermions using the Green's Function Monte Carlo method (GFMC). The ground state energy, density profile and pairing gap are calculated for particle…

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We examine the physics of two, three, and four heavy fermions interacting with a single light fermion via short-range interactions. Four-particle bosonic Efimov states have proven important experimentally and also been the subject of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-29 S. Gandolfi , J. Carlson

The unitarity limit describes interacting particles where the range of the interaction is zero and the scattering length is infinite. We present precision benchmark calculations for two-component fermions at unitarity using three different…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-06-27 Shahin Bour , Xin Li , Dean Lee , Ulf-G. Meißner , Lubos Mitas

We study fermion pairing in a population-imbalanced mixture of $^{6}$Li atomic gas loaded in a three-dimensional lattice at very low temperatures. Using the number equation for each population, the gap equation and the equation for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-09 Rafael Mendoza , Mauricio Fortes , M. A. Solís , Zlatko Koinov

We consider pairing in a two-component atomic Fermi gas, in a three-dimensional optical lattice, when the components have unequal densities, i.e. the gas is polarized. We show that a superfluid where the translational symmetry is broken by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Koponen , J. Kinnunen , J. -P. Martikainen , L. M. Jensen , P. Torma

We present a new lattice Monte Carlo approach developed for studying large numbers of strongly interacting nonrelativistic fermions, and apply it to a dilute gas of unitary fermions confined to a harmonic trap. Our lattice action is highly…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-04 Michael G. Endres , David B. Kaplan , Jong-Wan Lee , Amy N. Nicholson

Variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) calculations of the properties of the zero-temperature fermionic gas at unitarity are reported. The ratio of the energy of the interacting to the non-interacting gas for a system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-26 Andrew J. Morris , P. Lopez Rios , R. J. Needs

Whether it occurs in superconductors, helium-3 or inside a neutron star, fermionic superfluidity requires pairing of fermions, particles with half-integer spin. For an equal mixture of two states of fermions ("spin up" and "spin down"),…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin W. Zwierlein , André Schirotzek , Christian H. Schunck , Wolfgang Ketterle

We study magnetic phases of two-component mixtures of ultracold fermions with repulsive interactions in optical lattices in the presence of hopping imbalance. Our analysis is based on dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) and its real-space…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-14 Andrii Sotnikov , Daniel Cocks , Walter Hofstetter

The equation of state of the partially polarized two component Fermi gas at zero temperature in the unitary limit is computed by {\it ab initio} auxiliary field Monte Carlo method. We obtain the critical ratio of the chemical potentials…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Y. Chang

We revisit the properties of the two-component Fermi gas with short-range interactions in three dimensions, in the limit where the s-wave scattering length diverges. Such a unitary Fermi gas possesses universal thermodynamic and dynamical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-22 Jesper Levinsen , Pietro Massignan , Shimpei Endo , Meera M. Parish

We consider population-imbalanced two-component Fermi gases under external harmonic confinement interacting through short-range two-body potentials with diverging s-wave scattering length. Using the fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo method,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Blume

We consider a Fermi gas with two components of different masses, with the s-wave two-body interaction tuned to unitarity. In the range of mass ratio 8.62<M/m<13.6, it is possible for a single contact interaction between heavy fermions to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 Yusuke Nishida , Dam Thanh Son , Shina Tan

We study the phase diagram of a two component Fermi system with a weak attractive interaction. Our analysis includes the leading order Hartree energy shifts and pairing correlations at finite temperature and chemical potential difference…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-06 Rishi Sharma , Sanjay Reddy

We investigate the inhomogeneous unitary Fermi gas and use the long-wavelength properties to predict the energies of small clusters of unitary fermions trapped in harmonic potentials. The large pairing gap and scale invariance place severe…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Carlson , S. Gandolfi

The energy shift due to the interaction of two particles in a large box is proportional to the free particle scattering phase-shift. This provides an approximation to the effective interaction referred to as the phase-shift approximation.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. S. Kohler

We use Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations to study the pairing mechanism in a one-dimensional fermionic system governed by the Hubbard model with attractive contact interaction and with imbalance between the two spin populations. This is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-17 M. J. Wolak , V. G. Rousseau , G. G. Batrouni

In this note we consider three issues related to the unitary Fermi gas in a harmonic trap. We present a short proof of a virial theorem, which states that the average energy of a particle system at unitarity in a harmonic trap is twice…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-07-13 D. T. Son

We present strong theoretical evidence that a Larkin-Ovchinnikov (LOFF/FFLO) pairing phase is favoured over the homogeneous superfluid and normal phases in three-dimensional unitary Fermi systems. Using a Density Functional Theory (DFT)…

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