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The thermodynamic potential is calculated for a uniform superfluid gas of fermi atoms from the mean field BCS equations including corrections from induced interactions, Hartree-Fock energies and quasiparticle selfenergies. The entropy,…

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Sound propagation is a macroscopic manifestation of the interplay between the equilibrium thermodynamics and the dynamical transport properties of fluids. Here, for a two-dimensional system of ultracold fermions, we calculate the first and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-21 A. Tononi , A. Cappellaro , G. Bighin , L. Salasnich

We review our theoretical results about the sound propagation in two-dimensional (2D) systems of ultracold fermionic and bosonic atoms. In the superfluid phase, characterized by the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the $U(1)$ symmetry,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-10-19 L. Salasnich , A. Cappellaro , K. Furutani , A. Tononi , G. Bighin

We determine the temperature $T$ dependence of first and second sound mode frequencies for trapped Fermi gases undergoing BCS to Bose Einstein condensation (BEC) crossover. Our results are based on the two fluid equations in conjunction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-13 Yan He , Qijin Chen , Chih-Chun Chien , K. Levin

We theoretically investigate first and second sound modes of a unitary Fermi gas trapped in a highly oblate harmonic trap at finite temperatures. Following the idea by Stringari and co-workers {[}Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{105}, 150402…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-07 Hui Hu , Paul Dyke , Chris J. Vale , Xia-Ji Liu

We study finite-temperature properties of a two-dimensional superfluid made of ultracold alkali-metal atoms in the BCS-BEC crossover. We investigate the region below the critical temperature $T_{BKT}$ of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-20 L. Salasnich , P. A. Marchetti , F. Toigo

Second sound is an entropy wave which propagates in the superfluid component of a quantum liquid. Because it is an entropy wave, it probes the thermodynamic properties of the quantum liquid which are determined, e.g., by the interaction…

We study sound propagation in a uniform superfluid gas of Fermi atoms in the unitary limit. The existence of normal and superfluid components leads to appearance of two sound modes in the collisional regime, referred to as first and second…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 Emiko Arahata , Tetsuro Nikuni

We consider the BCS-BEC crossover for a system of trapped Fermi atoms at finite temperature, both below and above the superfluid critical temperature, by including fluctuations beyond mean field. We determine the superfluid critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-20 A. Perali , P. Pieri , L. Pisani , G. C. Strinati

We theoretically investigate the critical behavior of second sound mode in a harmonically trapped ultracold atomic Fermi gas with resonant interactions. Near the superfluid phase transition with critical temperature $T_{c}$, the frequency…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-10 Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu

Using a variational approach, we solve the equations of two-fluid hydrodynamics for a uniform and trapped Fermi gas at unitarity. In the uniform case, we find that the first and second sound modes are remarkably similar to those in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-11-02 E. Taylor , H. Hu , X. -J. Liu , L. P. Pitaevskii , A. Griffin , S. Stringari

We compare recent experimental results [Science 375, 528 (2022)] of the superfluid unitary Fermi gas near the critical temperature with a thermodynamic model based on elementary excitations of the system. We find very good agreement between…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-25 G. Bighin , A. Cappellaro , L. Salasnich

Strongly interacting two-dimensional Fermi systems are one of the great remaining challenges in many-body physics due to the interplay of strong local correlations and enhanced long-range fluctuations. Here, we probe the thermodynamic and…

We consider a Fermi gas at unitarity trapped by a highly elongated harmonic potential and solve the equations of two fluid hydrodynamics at finite temperature. The propagation of sound waves as well as the discretized solutions in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-04 Yan-Hua Hou , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari

The two-fluid model is fundamental for the description of superfluidity. In the nearly-incompressible-liquid regime, it successfully describes first and second sound, corresponding, respectively, to density and entropy waves, in both liquid…

A new mechanism is proposed to explain the puzzling damping of collective excitations, which was recently observed in the experiments of strongly interacting Fermi gases below the superfluid critical temperature on the fermionic (BCS) side…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-03-01 Zixu Zhang , W. Vincent Liu

We map out the critical velocity in the crossover from Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) to Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superfluidity with ultracold $^{6}$Li gases. A small attractive potential is dragged along lines of constant column…

Superfluidity is a macroscopic quantum phenomenon, which shows up below a critical temperature and leads to a peculiar behavior of matter, with frictionless flow, the formation of quantized vortices, and the quenching of the moment of…

We investigate the propagation of density and temperature waves in a cylindrically trapped gas with radial harmonic confinement. Starting from two-fluid hydrodynamic theory we derive effective 1D equations for the chemical potential and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-10-15 G. Bertaina , L. Pitaevskii , S. Stringari

Using a variational approach, we present the full solutions of the simplified one-dimensional two-fluid hydrodynamic equations for a unitary Fermi gas trapped in a highly elongated harmonic potential, which is recently derived by Stringari…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-07 Xia-Ji Liu , Hui Hu
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