Polaron-to-molecule transition in a strongly imbalanced Fermi gas

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Punk, M ^a   Dumitrescu, P T ^b   Zwerger, W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JESUS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC THEOREM; BOUND STATE; CRITICAL STRENGTH; CRITICAL VALUE; FERMI GAS; FERMI SEA; MANY-BODY; MONTE CARLO; POLARONIC QUASIPARTICLE; QUASI PARTICLES; SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; ZERO RANGE INTERACTION;

ELECTRON GAS; MOLECULES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARONS; SPIN DYNAMICS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

FERMIONS;

EID: 70450092847     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.053605     Document Type: Article

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