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Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110408 (2005) [4 pages]

Simple Mean-Field Theory for a Zero-Temperature Fermionic Gas at a Feshbach Resonance

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Juha Javanainen1, Marijan Koštrun1, Matt Mackie2, and Andrew Carmichael1
1Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046, USA
2Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA

Received 6 June 2005; published 9 September 2005

We present a simple two-channel mean-field theory for a zero-temperature two-component Fermi gas in the neighborhood of a Feshbach resonance. Our results agree with recent experiments on the bare-molecule fraction as a function of magnetic field [ Partridge et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 020404 (2005)]. Even in this strongly coupled gas of 6Li, the experimental results depend on the structure of the molecules formed in the Feshbach resonance and, therefore, are not universal.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.110408
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.110408
PACS:
03.75.Ss, 03.65.Sq, 05.30.Fk