scholarly journals Functional renormalization for the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer to Bose–Einstein condensation crossover

Author(s):  
Michael M. Scherer ◽  
Stefan Floerchinger ◽  
Holger Gies

We review the functional renormalization group (RG) approach to the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer to Bose–Einstein condensation (BCS–BEC) crossover for an ultracold gas of fermionic atoms. Formulated in terms of a scale-dependent effective action, the functional RG interpolates continuously between the atomic or molecular microphysics and the macroscopic physics on large length scales. We concentrate on the discussion of the phase diagram as a function of the scattering length and the temperature, which is a paradigm example for the non-perturbative power of the functional RG. A systematic derivative expansion provides for both a description of the many-body physics and its expected universal features as well as an accurate account of the few-body physics and the associated BEC and BCS limits.

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (19) ◽  
pp. 2739-2754
Author(s):  
G. V. SHLYAPNIKOV

We give a brief overview of recent studies of quantum degenerate regimes in ultracold Fermi gases. The attention is focused on the regime of Bose-Einstein condensation of weakly bound molecules of fermionic atoms, formed at a large positive scattering length for the interspecies atom-atom interaction. We analyze remarkable collisional stability of these molecules and draw prospects for future studies.


1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (05n06) ◽  
pp. 625-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. AKHMEDIEV ◽  
M. P. DAS ◽  
A. V. VAGOV

We suggest that crucial effect on Bose-Einstein condensation in systems with attractive potential is three-body interaction. We investigate stationary solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with negative scattering length and a higher-order stabilising term in presence of an external parabolic potential. Stability properties of the condensate are similar to those for thermodynamic systems in statistical physics which have first order phase transitions. We have shown that there are three possible type of stationary solutions corresponding to stable, metastable and unstable phases. Results are discussed in relation to recently observed 7 Li condensate.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
M. Serhan

In this work I solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation describing an atomic gas confined in an isotropic harmonic trap by introducing a variational wavefunction of Gaussian type. The chemical potential of the system is calculated and the solutions are discussed in the weakly and strongly interacting regimes. For the attractive system with negative scattering length the maximum number of atoms that can be put in the condensate without collapse begins is calculated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 1740027
Author(s):  
Yuya Tanizaki ◽  
Tetsuo Hatsuda

We propose a method of multi-regulator functional renormalization group (MR-FRG) which is a novel formulation of functional renormalization group with multiple infrared (IR) regulators. It is applied to a two-component fermionic system with an attractive contact interaction to study crossover phenomena between the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) phase and the Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) phase. To control both the fermionic one-particle excitations and the bosonic collective excitations, IR regulators are introduced, one for the fermionic two-point function and another for the four-fermion vertex. It is shown that the Nozières–Schmitt-Rink (NSR) theory, which is successful to capture qualitative features of the BCS–BEC crossover, can be derived from MR–FRG. Some aspects of MR-FRG to go beyond the NSR theory are also discussed.


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