From Trapped Atoms to Liberated Quarks

Abstract

We discuss some aspects of cold atomic gases in the unitarity limit that are of interest in connection with the physics of dense hadronic matter. We consider, in particular, the equation of state at zero temperature, the magnitude of the pairing gap, and the phase diagram at non-zero polarization.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures; to appear in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Heavy Ion Physics 2006, Frankfurt, Germany; International Journal of Modern Physics E, in pres