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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 090405 (2008) [4 pages]

Universal Fermi Gas with Two- and Three-Body Resonances

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Yusuke Nishida, Dam Thanh Son, and Shina Tan
Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1550, USA

Received 27 November 2007; published 5 March 2008

We consider a Fermi gas with two components of different masses, with the s-wave two-body interaction tuned to unitarity. In the range of mass ratio 8.62<M/m<13.6, it is possible for a short-range interaction between heavy fermions to produce a resonance in a three-body channel. The resulting system is scale invariant and has universal properties, and is very strongly interacting. When M/m is slightly above the lower limit 8.62, the ground state energy of a 2∶1 mixture of heavy and light fermions is less than 2% of the energy of a noninteracting gas with the same number densities. We derive exact relationships between the pressures of the unitary Fermi gases with and without three-body resonance when the mass ratio is close to the critical values of 8.62 and 13.6.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.090405
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.090405
PACS:
05.30.Fk, 03.75.Ss