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Influence of Cooper pairing on the inelastic processes in a gas of Fermi atoms
Correlation properties in ultracold Fermi gas with negative scattering length
and its impact on the three-body recombination is analyzed. We find that Cooper
pairing enhances the recombination rate in contrast to the decrease of this
rate accompanying Bose-Einstein condensation in a Bose gas. This trend is
characteristic for all interval of temperatures T<Tc
Superconductivity from repulsive interactions in the two dimensional electron gas
We present a well-controlled perturbative renormalization group (RG)
treatment of superconductivity from short-ranged repulsive interactions in a
variety of model two dimensional electronic systems. Our analysis applies in
the limit where the repulsive interactions between the electrons are small
compared to their kinetic energy.Comment: 10 pages 3 figure
Small-scale phase separation in doped anisotropic antiferromagnets
We analyze the possibility of the nanoscale phase separation manifesting
itself in the formation of ferromagnetic (FM) polarons (FM droplets) in the
general situation of doped anisotropic three- and two-dimensional
antiferromagnets. In these cases, we calculate the shape of the most
energetically favorable droplets. We show that the binding energy and the
volume of a FM droplet in the three-dimensional (3D) case depend only upon two
universal parameters and , where and are effective
antiferromagnetic (AFM) exchange and hopping integrals, respectively. In the
two-dimensional (2D) case, these parameters have the form and . The most favorable shape of a
ferromagnetic droplet corresponds to an ellipse in the 2D case and to an
ellipsoid in the 3D case.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, RevTe
Bound states of three and four resonantly interacting particles
We present an exact diagrammatic approach for the problem of dimer-dimer
scattering in 3D for dimers being a resonant bound state of two fermions in a
spin-singlet state, with corresponding scattering length . Applying this
approach to the calculation of the dimer-dimer scattering length , we
recover exactly the already known result . We use the developed
approach to obtain new results in 2D for fermions as well as for bosons.
Namely, we calculate bound state energies for three and four
resonantly interacting bosons in 2D. For the case of resonant interaction
between fermions and bosons we calculate exactly bound state energies of the
following complexes: two bosons plus one fermion , two bosons plus two
fermions , and three bosons plus one fermion
.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Electro-diffusion in a plasma with two ion species
Electric field is a thermodynamic force that can drive collisional
inter-ion-species transport in a multicomponent plasma. In an inertial
confinement fusion (ICF) capsule, such transport causes fuel ion separation
even with a target initially prepared to have equal number densities for the
two fuel ion species. Unlike the baro-diffusion driven by ion pressure gradient
and the thermo-diffusion driven by ion and electron temperature gradients,
electro-diffusion has a critical dependence on the charge-to-mass ratio of the
ion species. Specifically, it is shown here that electro-diffusion vanishes if
the ion species have the same charge-to-mass ratio. An explicit expression for
the electro-diffusion ratio is obtained and used to investigate the relative
importance of electro- and baro-diffusion mechanisms. In particular, it is
found that electro-diffusion reinforces baro-diffusion in the deuterium and
tritium mix, but tends to cancel it in the deuterium and helium-3 mix.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Plasmas on 2012-03-06 (revised version 05/13/2012
Rayleigh-Taylor instability of crystallization waves at the superfluid-solid 4He interface
At the superfluid-solid 4He interface there exist crystallization waves
having much in common with gravitational-capillary waves at the interface
between two normal fluids. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is an instability of
the interface which can be realized when the lighter fluid is propelling the
heavier one. We investigate here the analogues of the Rayleigh-Taylor
instability for the superfluid-solid 4He interface. In the case of a uniformly
accelerated interface the instability occurs only for a growing solid phase
when the magnitude of the acceleration exceeds some critical value independent
of the surface stiffness. For the Richtmyer-Meshkov limiting case of an
impulsively accelerated interface, the onset of instability does not depend on
the sign of the interface acceleration. In both cases the effect of
crystallization wave damping is to reduce the perturbation growth-rate of the
Taylor unstable interface.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, RevTe
Coherence properties of an atom laser
We study the coherence properties of an atom laser, which operates by
extracting atoms from a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate via a two-photon Raman
process, by analyzing a recent experiment. We obtain good agreement with the
experimental data by solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation in
three dimensions both numerically and with a Thomas-Fermi model. The coherence
length is strongly affected by the space-dependent phase developed by the
condensate when the trapping potential is turned off.Comment: 11 pages, 2 Postscript figure
Adsorption and two-body recombination of atomic hydrogen on He-He mixture films
We present the first systematic measurement of the binding energy of
hydrogen atoms to the surface of saturated He-He mixture films.
is found to decrease almost linearly from 1.14(1) K down to 0.39(1) K, when the
population of the ground surface state of He grows from zero to
cm, yielding the value K cm
for the mean-field parameter of H-He interaction in 2D. The experiments
were carried out with overall He concentrations ranging from 0.1 ppm to 5 %
as well as with commercial and isotopically purified He at temperatures
70...400 mK. Measuring by ESR the rate constants and for
second-order recombination of hydrogen atoms in hyperfine states and we
find the ratio to be independent of the He content and to
grow with temperature.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, all zipped in a sigle file. Submitted to Phys.
Rev. Let
Landau damping of transverse quadrupole oscillations of an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate
We study the interaction between low-lying transverse collective oscillations
and thermal excitations of an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate by means of
perturbation theory. We consider a cylindrically trapped condensate and
calculate the transverse elementary excitations at zero temperature by solving
the linearized Gross-Pitaevskii equations in two dimensions. We use them to
calculate the matrix elements between thermal excited states coupled with the
quasi-2D collective modes. The Landau damping of transverse collective modes is
investigated as a function of temperature. At low temperatures, the damping
rate due to the Landau decay mechanism is in agreement with the experimental
data for the decay of the transverse quadrupole mode, but it is too small to
explain the slow experimental decay of the transverse breathing mode. The
reason for this discrepancy is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX, 1 figur
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