Pair Correlations of an Expanding Superfluid Fermi Gas

C. Lobo, I. Carusotto, S. Giorgini, A. Recati, and S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 100405 – Published 8 September 2006

Abstract

The pair correlation function of an expanding gas is investigated with an emphasis on the BEC-BCS crossover of a superfluid Fermi gas at zero temperature. At unitarity quantum Monte Carlo simulations reveal the occurrence of a sizable bunching effect due to interactions in the spin up-down channel which, at short distances, is larger than that exhibited by thermal bosons in the Hanbury-Brown–Twiss effect. We propose a local equilibrium ansatz for the pair correlation function which we predict will remain isotropic during the expansion even if the trapping potential is anisotropic, in contrast with the behavior of the density. The isotropy of the pair correlation function is an experimentally accessible signature, which makes a clear distinction with respect to the case of noninteracting gases and can be understood as a consequence of the violation of scaling.

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  • Received 11 April 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.100405

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

C. Lobo*, I. Carusotto, S. Giorgini, A. Recati, and S. Stringari

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento and CNR-INFM BEC Center, I-38050 Povo, Trento, Italy

  • *Electronic address: clobo@science.unitn.it

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Vol. 97, Iss. 10 — 8 September 2006

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