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A dilute atomic Fermi system with a large positive scattering length

P.F. Bedaque (LBL) and A. Bulgac

We show that a dilute atomic Fermi systems at low temperatures, when the scattering length is relatively large and positive, can exist either as a weakly interacting Fermi gas coexisting with a BEC of weakly bound fermion pairs, or as a mixture of a weakly coupled BCS Fermi superfluid coexisting with a BEC of weakly bound fermion pairs. In a somewhat suprising turn of events the properties of such a complex system are determined fully by the fermion-fermion scattering length and the fermion mass alone [79].



Martin Savage 2003-08-06