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"Gray" BCS condensate of excitons and internal Josephson effect
It has been recently suggested that the Bose-Einstein condensate formed by
excitons in the dilute limit must be dark, i.e., not coupled to photons. Here,
we show that, under a density increase, the dark exciton condensate must
acquire a bright component due to carrier exchange in which dark excitons turn
bright. This however requires a density larger than a threshold which seems to
fall in the forbidden region of the phase separation between a dilute exciton
gas and a dense electron-hole plasma. The BCS-like condensation which is likely
to take place on the dense side, must then have a dark and a bright component -
which makes it "gray". It should be possible to induce an internal Josephson
effect between these two coherent components, with oscillations of the
photoluminescence as a strong proof of the existence for this "gray" BCS-like
exciton condensate.Comment: 4 pages, typo correcte
On Koopman-von Neumann Waves II
In this paper we continue the study, started in [1], of the operatorial
formulation of classical mechanics given by Koopman and von Neumann (KvN) in
the Thirties. In particular we show that the introduction of the KvN Hilbert
space of complex and square integrable "wave functions" requires an enlargement
of the set of the observables of ordinary classical mechanics. The possible
role and the meaning of these extra observables is briefly indicated in this
work. We also analyze the similarities and differences between non selective
measurements and two-slit experiments in classical and quantum mechanics.Comment: 18+1 pages, 1 figure, misprints fixe
Statistical analysis of the growth and morphology of the filamentous microbe Streptomyces coelicolor
Topological stripelike coreless textures with inner incommensurability in two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet
For two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet we present an analysis of
topological coreless excitations having a stripe form. These textures are
characterized by singularities at boundaries. A detailed classification of the
stripe textures results in a certain analogy with the coreless excitations in
phase: Mermin-Ho and Anderson-Toulouse coreless vortices. The
excitations of the last type may have a low bulk energy. The stripe textures
may be observed as an occurrence of short-range incommensurate order in the
antiferromagnetic environment
Collective oscillations of a Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance
A sum rule approach is used to calculate the zero temperature oscillation
frequencies of a two component trapped atomic Fermi gas in the BCS-Bose
Einstein condensation crossover region. These sum rules are evaluated using a
local density approximation which explicitly includes Feshbach molecules.
Breathing modes show non-monotonic behavior as a function of the interaction
strength, while quadrupole modes are insensitive to interactions for both
spherically symmetric and axially symmetric traps. Quantitative agreement is
found with experiments on atomic system and with other theoretical
approaches.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Fermi-Fermi Mixtures in the Strong Attraction Limit
The phase diagrams of low density Fermi-Fermi mixtures with equal or unequal
masses and equal or unequal populations are described at zero and finite
temperatures in the strong attraction limit. In this limit, the Fermi-Fermi
mixture can be described by a weakly interacting Bose-Fermi mixture, where the
bosons correspond to Feshbach molecules and the fermions correspond to excess
atoms. First, we discuss the three and four fermion scattering processes, and
use the exact boson-fermion and boson-boson scattering lengths to generate the
phase diagrams in terms of the underlying fermion-fermion scattering length. In
three dimensions, in addition to the normal and uniform superfluid phases, we
find two stable non-uniform states corresponding to (1) phase separation
between pure unpaired (excess) and pure paired fermions (molecular bosons); and
(2) phase separation between pure excess fermions and a mixture of excess
fermions and molecular bosons. Lastly, we also discuss the effects of the
trapping potential in the density profiles of condensed and non-condensed
molecular bosons, and excess fermions at zero and finite temperatures, and
discuss possible implications of our findings to experiments involving mixtures
of ultracold fermions.Comment: 12 Pages, 6 Figures and 1 Tabl
Calculation of NMR Properties of Solitons in Superfluid 3He-A
Superfluid 3He-A has domain-wall-like structures, which are called solitons.
We calculate numerically the structure of a splay soliton. We study the effect
of solitons on the nuclear-magnetic-resonance spectrum by calculating the
frequency shifts and the amplitudes of the soliton peaks for both longitudinal
and transverse oscillations of magnetization. The effect of dissipation caused
by normal-superfluid conversion and spin diffusion is calculated. The
calculations are in good agreement with experiments, except a problem in the
transverse resonance frequency of the splay soliton or in magnetic-field
dependence of reduced resonance frequencies.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, updated to the published versio
Bound states in a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gas
We consider the problem of N identical fermions of mass M and one
distinguishable particle of mass m interacting via short-range interactions in
a confined quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) geometry. For N=2 and mass ratios
M/m<13.6, we find non-Efimov trimers that smoothly evolve from 2D to 3D. In the
limit of strong 2D confinement, we show that the energy of the N+1 system can
be approximated by an effective two-channel model. We use this approximation to
solve the 3+1 problem and we find that a bound tetramer can exist for mass
ratios M/m as low as 5 for strong confinement, thus providing the first example
of a universal, non-Efimov tetramer involving three identical fermions.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Surface Energy in Cold Asymmetrical Fermion Superfluids
We derive the energy of the surface between the normal and superfluid
components of a mixed phase of a system composed of two particle species with
different densities. The surface energy is obtained by the integration of the
free energy density in the interface between the two phases. We show that the
mixed phase remains as the favored ground state over the gapless phase in weak
coupling. We find that the surface energy effects emerge only at strong
coupling.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected, published versio
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