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Dynamical Response of Fermi Condensate to Varying Magnetic Fields
We investigate the dynamical response of strongly interacting ultra-cold
fermionic atoms near Feshbach resonance to varying magnetic fields. Following
the experimental practices, we calculate the response of the atoms to
oscillating and to linearly ramped magnetic fields respectively. For
oscillating magnetic fields, depending on the frequencies and the amplitudes of
the oscillations, the response of the pair excitation gap shows either linear
or rich non-linear behaviour. In addition, both the spectral studies through
the linear response theory and the time-domain simulations suggest the
existence of a resonant frequency corresponding to the pair dissociation
threshold. For linearly ramped magnetic fields, the response of the excitation
gap shows damped oscillations. The final value of the excitation gap depends on
the rate of the field sweep.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
Detecting the breached pair phase in a polarized ultracold Fermi gas
We propose a method for the experimental detection of a new quantum phase,
the breached pair state, in a strongly interacting ultracold Fermi gas with
population imbalance. We show that through the time-of-flight Raman imaging,
the presence of such a phase can be unambiguously determined with a measurement
of the momentum-space phase separation of the minority spin component. To guide
the experimental efforts, the momentum-space density profiles are calculated
under typical experimental conditions.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, replaced with the published versio
Trapped Fermions across a Feshbach resonance with population imbalance
We investigate the phase separation of resonantly interacting fermions in a
trap with imbalanced spin populations, both at zero and at finite temperatures.
We directly minimize the thermodynamical potential under the local density
approximation instead of using the gap equation, as the latter may give
unstable solutions. On the BEC side of the resonance, one may cross three
different phases from the trap center to the edge; while on the BCS side or at
resonance, typically only two phases show up. We compare our results with the
recent experiment, and the agreement is remarkable.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, replaced with the published versio
BCS-BEC crossover and quantum phase transition for 6Li and 40K atoms across Feshbach resonance
We systematically study the BCS-BEC crossover and the quantum phase
transition in ultracold 6Li and 40K atoms across a wide Feshbach resonance. The
background scattering lengths for 6Li and 40K have opposite signs, which lead
to very different behaviors for these two types of atoms. For 40K, both the
two-body and the many-body calculations show that the system always has two
branches of solutions: one corresponds to a deeply bound molecule state; and
the other, the one accessed by the current experiments, corresponds to a weakly
bound state with population always dominantly in the open channel. For 6Li,
there is only a unique solution with the standard crossover from the weakly
bound Cooper pairs to the deeply bound molecules as one sweeps the magnetic
field through the crossover region. Because of this difference, for the
experimentally accessible state of 40K, there is a quantum phase transition at
zero temperature from the superfluid to the normal fermi gas at the positive
detuning of the magnetic field where the s-wave scattering length passes its
zero point. For 6Li, however, the system changes continuously across the zero
point of the scattering length. For both types of atoms, we also give detailed
comparison between the results from the two-channel and the single-channel
model over the whole region of the magnetic field detuning.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Effective Hamiltonian for fermions in an optical lattice across Feshbach resonance
We derive the Hamiltonian for cold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice
across a broad Feshbach resonance, taking into account of both multiband
occupations and neighboring-site collisions. Under typical configurations, the
resulting Hamiltonian can be dramatically simplified to an effective
single-band model, which describes a new type of resonance between the local
dressed molecules and the valence bond states of fermionic atoms at neighboring
sites. On different sides of such a resonance, the effective Hamiltonian is
reduced to either a t-J model for the fermionic atoms or an XXZ model for the
dressed molecules. The parameters in these models are experimentally tunable in
the full range, which allows for observation of various phase transitions.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Superfluid shells for trapped fermions with mass and population imbalance
We map out the phase diagram of strongly interacting fermions in a potential
trap with mass and population imbalance between the two spin components. As a
unique feature distinctively different from the equal-mass case, we show that
the superfluid here forms a shell structure which is not simply connected in
space. Different types of normal states occupy the trap regions inside and
outside this superfluid shell. We calculate the atomic density profiles, which
provide an experimental signature for the superfluid shell structure.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Superfluidity of fermions with repulsive on-site interaction in an anisotropic optical lattice near a Feshbach resonance
We present a numerical study on ground state properties of a one-dimensional
(1D) general Hubbard model (GHM) with particle-assisted tunnelling rates and
repulsive on-site interaction (positive-U), which describes fermionic atoms in
an anisotropic optical lattice near a wide Feshbach resonance. For our
calculation, we utilize the time evolving block decimation (TEBD) algorithm,
which is an extension of the density matrix renormalization group and provides
a well-controlled method for 1D systems. We show that the positive-U GHM, when
hole-doped from half-filling, exhibits a phase with coexistence of
quasi-long-range superfluid and charge-density-wave orders. This feature is
different from the property of the conventional Hubbard model with positive-U,
indicating the particle-assisted tunnelling mechanism in GHM brings in
qualitatively new physics.Comment: updated with published version
Bulk metallic glass formation in binary Cu-rich alloy series – Cu100−xZrx (x=34, 36, 38.2, 40 at.%) and mechanical properties of bulk Cu64Zr36 glass
The compositional dependence of a glass-forming ability (GFA) was systematically studied in a binary alloy series Cu100−xZrx (x=34, 36, 38.2, 40 at.%) by the copper mold casting method. Our results show the critical casting thickness jumps from below 0.5 mm to above 2 mm when x changes from 34 to 36 while further increase in x reduces the critical casting thickness. The best glass former Cu64Zr36 does not correspond to either the largest undercooled liquid region (ΔT=Tx1−Tg, where Tg is the glass transition temperature, and Tx1 is the onset temperature of the first crystallization event upon heating) or the highest reduced glass transition temperature (Trg=Tg/Tl, where Tl is the liquidus temperature). Properties of bulk amorphous Cu64Zr36 were measured, yielding a Tg ~ 787 K, Trg ~ 0.64, ΔT ~ 46 K, Hv (Vicker's Hardness) ~ 742 kg/mm^2, Young's Modulus ~ 92.3 GPa, compressive fracture strength ~ 2 GPa and compressive strain before failure ~ 2.2%
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