Hydrodynamic modes in a trapped strongly interacting Fermi gas of atoms

Abstract

The zero-temperature properties of a dilute two-component Fermi gas in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer phase-Bose-Einstein condensate crossover are investigated. On the basis of a generalization of the variational Schwinger method, we construct approximate semi-analytical formulae for collective frequencies of the radial and the axial breathing modes of the Fermi gas under harmonic confinement in the framework of the hydrodynamic theory. It is shown that the method gives nearly exact solutions.

Published in:

Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 38,14 (2005) L243-L249;

Keywords

many-body problem;; condensation

Date of Version

1-1-2005

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