Functional renormalization for trion formation in ultracold fermion gases

dc.creatorFloerchinger, S.
dc.creatorSchmidt, R.
dc.creatorMoroz, S.
dc.creatorWetterich, C.
dc.date2008-09-09
dc.date2009-01-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:30:55Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:30:55Z
dc.descriptionThe energy spectrum for three species of identical fermionic atoms close to a Feshbach resonance is computed by use of a nonperturbative flow equation. Already a simple truncation shows that for large scattering length $|a|$ the lowest energy state is a "trion" (or trimer) bound state of three atoms. At the location of the resonance, for $|a|\to\infty$, we find an infinite set of trimer bound states, with exponentially decreasing binding energy. This feature was pointed out by Efimov. It arises from limit cycle scaling, which also leads to a periodic dependence of the three body scattering coupling on $\ln |a|$. Extending our findings by continuity to nonzero density and temperature we find that a "trion phase" separates a BEC and a BCS phase, with interesting quantum phase transitions for T=0.
dc.description9 pages, 4 figures, minor changes, reference added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1675
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1675
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. A 79, 013603 (2009)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevA.79.013603
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/216281
dc.subjectSuperconductivity
dc.titleFunctional renormalization for trion formation in ultracold fermion gases
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