The BCS-BEC Crossover and the Unitary Fermi Gas

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zwerger, Wilhelm (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 836
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Phase transformations (Statistical physics).; Condensed materials.; Condensed matter.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Low temperature physics.; Low temperatures.; Quantum Gases and Condensates.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Low Temperature Physics.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Quantum Physics.

Triggered by recent experimental and theoretical progress in elucidating the tunable crossover, in ultracold Fermi gases, from BCS-type superconductors to BEC-type superfluids, this volume is a collaborative effort by most leading international experts to provide both a pedagogical and up-to-date in...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The BCS-BEC Crossover and the Unitary Fermi Gas
• The BEC-BCS Crossover: Some History and Some General Observations
• Crossovers in Unitary Fermi Systems
• Pairing Fluctuations Approach to the BCS-BEC Crossover
• The Unitary Gas and its Symmetry Properties
• Universal Relations for Termions With Large Scattering Length
• Unitary Fermi Gas, E Expansion, and Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theories
• Dilute Fermi and Bose Gases
• The Unitary Fermi Gas: From Monte Carlo to Density Functionals
• Scaling Flows and Dissipation in the Dilute Fermi Gas at Unitarity
• Thermodynamics of Fermi Gases
• Normal Phase of Polarised Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
• Thermodynamics of Trapped Imbalanced Fermi Gases at Unitarity
• BCE-BEC Crossover and Unconventional Superfluid Order in one Dimension.