Functional renormalization for the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer to Bose-Einstein condensation crossover

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1946, 2011, Pages 2779-2799

  Scherer, Michael M ^a   Floerchinger, Stefan ^b   Gies, Holger ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bardeen Cooper Schrieffer to Bose Einstein condensation crossover; Functional renormalization group; Ultracold fermionic atoms

Indexed keywords

BARDEEN-COOPER-SCHRIEFFER; BARDEEN-COOPER-SCHRIEFFER TO BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION CROSSOVER; FERMIONIC ATOMS; FUNCTIONAL RENORMALIZATION; FUNCTIONAL RENORMALIZATION GROUP; LARGE LENGTH-SCALE; MACROSCOPIC PHYSICS; MANY-BODY; MICROPHYSICS; SCATTERING LENGTH; ULTRA-COLD; ULTRACOLD GAS;

ATOMS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; BOSONS; FERMI LEVEL; FERMIONS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CONDENSATION;

EID: 79960018443     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0072     Document Type: Review

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