Quantum Fluctuations and Vortex-Antivortex Unbinding in the 2D Bcs-Bec Crossover

Year: 2016

Authors: Salasnich L., Bighin G.

Autors Affiliation: Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron Galileo Galilei, Padua, Italy; INO CNR, Sez Sesto Fiorentino, Padua, Italy.

Abstract: Very recently, quasi two-dimensional (2D) systems made of attractive fermionic alkali-metal atoms with a widely tunable interaction due to Fano-Feshbach resonances have been realized. In this way, it has been achieved the 2D crossover from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer regime of weakly-interacting Cooper pairs to the Bose-Einstein condensate regime strongly bound dimers. These experiments pave the way to the investigation of 2D strongly-interacting attractive fermions during the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition from a low-temperature superfluid phase characterized by quasi-condensation to a high-temperature normal phase, where vortex proliferation driven by quantum and thermal fluctuations completely destroys superfluidity. In this paper, we discuss our preliminar theoretical results on the behavior of the BKT critical temperature across the crossover. Our microscopic calculations are based on functional integration taking into account renormalized Gaussian fluctuations and the crucial 2D effect of vortex-antivortex unbinding.

Journal/Review: JOURNAL OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND NOVEL MAGNETISM

Volume: 29 (12)      Pages from: 3103  to: 3106

More Information: This work was partially supported by MIUR through the PRIN Project Collective Quantum Phenomena: from Strongly-Correlated Systems to Quantum Simulators.
KeyWords: BCS-BEC crossover; Ultracold atoms; Dimensional regularization
DOI: 10.1007/s10948-016-3830-6

Citations: 7
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