Trapping-potential dependence of the unitary Fermi gas at the BCS-BEC crossover

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Autores principales: Beane, Silas R., Borgne, Adèle Le, Orlando, Domenico, Reffert, Susanne
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Publicado: 2025
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author Beane, Silas R.
Borgne, Adèle Le
Orlando, Domenico
Reffert, Susanne
author_facet Beane, Silas R.
Borgne, Adèle Le
Orlando, Domenico
Reffert, Susanne
contents Cold-atom experiments which measure Fermi-gas properties near unitarity confine fermionic atoms to a region of space using trapping potentials of various shapes. The presence of a trapping potential introduces a new characteristic physical scale in the superfluid EFT which, inter alia, describes the acoustic branch of excitations in the far infrared well below the scale of the superfluid gap. In this EFT there is a clear hierarchy of scales, and corrections to the homogeneous system due to the trapping potential may be organized into three regions with distinct power counting that relies on both the EFT derivative expansion, and the WKB approximation, which is an expansion in gradients of the trapping potential. The energy spectrum of the superfluid system is obtained in each of the regions by explicit computation of the phonon-field fluctuations, and by the modifications to the dynamic structure factor due to the corresponding density fluctuations. The most significant deviations from linear dispersion due to the trapping potential are found in the far infrared region of the superfluid EFT.
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spellingShingle Trapping-potential dependence of the unitary Fermi gas at the BCS-BEC crossover
Beane, Silas R.
Borgne, Adèle Le
Orlando, Domenico
Reffert, Susanne
Quantum Gases
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Cold-atom experiments which measure Fermi-gas properties near unitarity confine fermionic atoms to a region of space using trapping potentials of various shapes. The presence of a trapping potential introduces a new characteristic physical scale in the superfluid EFT which, inter alia, describes the acoustic branch of excitations in the far infrared well below the scale of the superfluid gap. In this EFT there is a clear hierarchy of scales, and corrections to the homogeneous system due to the trapping potential may be organized into three regions with distinct power counting that relies on both the EFT derivative expansion, and the WKB approximation, which is an expansion in gradients of the trapping potential. The energy spectrum of the superfluid system is obtained in each of the regions by explicit computation of the phonon-field fluctuations, and by the modifications to the dynamic structure factor due to the corresponding density fluctuations. The most significant deviations from linear dispersion due to the trapping potential are found in the far infrared region of the superfluid EFT.
title Trapping-potential dependence of the unitary Fermi gas at the BCS-BEC crossover
topic Quantum Gases
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26876