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Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090402 (2008) [4 pages]

Critical Temperature Curve in BEC-BCS Crossover

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Evgeni Burovski1, Evgeny Kozik2,3, Nikolay Prokof’ev2,3,4, Boris Svistunov2,4, and Matthias Troyer3
1Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
2Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
3Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
4Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute,” 123182 Moscow, Russia

Received 20 May 2008; published 27 August 2008

The strongly correlated regime of the crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer pairing to Bose-Einstein condensation can be realized by diluting a system of two-component fermions with a short-range attractive interaction. We investigate this system via a novel continuous-space-time diagrammatic determinant Monte Carlo method and determine the universal curve Tc/εF for the transition temperature between the normal and the superfluid states as a function of the scattering length with the maximum on the Bose-Einstein condensation side. At unitarity, we confirm that Tc/εF=0.152(7).

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.090402
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.090402
PACS:
05.30.Jp, 03.75.Ss, 05.10.Ln, 71.10.Fd