Abstract
It was recently shown [A. Bulgac, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 050402 (2002)] that an entirely new class of quantum liquids with widely tunable properties could be manufactured from bosons, fermions, and their mixtures by controlling their interaction properties by means of a Feshbach resonance. Since the quantum fluctuations in this regime could, in principle, destabilize these objects, we extend the previous mean-field analysis of these quantum liquids by computing the lowest-order quantum corrections to the ground-state energy and the depletion of the Bose-Einstein condensate and by estimating the higher-order corrections as well. We show that the quantum corrections are relatively small, do not lead to the destabilization of the droplets and are controlled by the diluteness parameter even though strictly speaking in this case there is no low density expansion.
- Received 11 September 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.033606
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