The BCS–BEC crossover: From ultra-cold Fermi gases to nuclear systems

GC Strinati, P Pieri, G Röpke, P Schuck, M Urban - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This report addresses topics and questions of common interest in the fields of ultra-cold
gases and nuclear physics in the context of the BCS–BEC crossover. By this crossover, the …

Theory of ultracold atomic Fermi gases

S Giorgini, LP Pitaevskii, S Stringari - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2008 - APS
The physics of quantum degenerate atomic Fermi gases in uniform as well as in
harmonically trapped configurations is reviewed from a theoretical perspective. Emphasis is …

Excitation spectrum and superfluid gap of an ultracold Fermi gas

H Biss, L Sobirey, N Luick, M Bohlen, JJ Kinnunen… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Ultracold atomic gases are a powerful tool to experimentally study strongly correlated
quantum many-body systems. In particular, ultracold Fermi gases with tunable interactions …

Collective mode of homogeneous superfluid Fermi gases in the BEC-BCS crossover

R Combescot, MY Kagan, S Stringari - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular …, 2006 - APS
We perform a detailed study of the collective mode across the whole crossover from the
Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)-to the BCS regime in fermionic gases at zero temperature …

Goldstone mode and pair-breaking excitations in atomic Fermi superfluids

S Hoinka, P Dyke, MG Lingham, JJ Kinnunen… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a central paradigm of elementary particle physics,
magnetism, superfluidity and superconductivity. According to Goldstone's theorem, phase …

Higgs mode in a strongly interacting fermionic superfluid

A Behrle, T Harrison, J Kombe, K Gao, M Link… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Higgs and Goldstone modes are possible collective modes of an order parameter on
spontaneously breaking a continuous symmetry. Whereas the low-energy Goldstone …

Spectral functions and rf response of ultracold fermionic atoms

R Haussmann, M Punk, W Zwerger - … Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2009 - APS
We present a calculation of the spectral functions and the associated rf response of ultracold
fermionic atoms near a Feshbach resonance. The single-particle spectra are peaked at …

Quantum fluctuations in the BCS-BEC crossover of two-dimensional Fermi gases

L He, H Lü, G Cao, H Hu, XJ Liu - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We present a theoretical study of the ground state of the BCS-BEC crossover in dilute two-
dimensional Fermi gases. While the mean-field theory provides a simple and analytical …

Possibility of an excitonic insulator at the semiconductor-semimetal transition

FX Bronold, H Fehske - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2006 - APS
We calculate the critical temperature below which an excitonic insulator exists at the
pressure-induced semiconductor-semimetal transition. Our approach is based on an …

Single-particle properties and pseudogap effects in the BCS-BEC crossover regime of an ultracold Fermi gas above

S Tsuchiya, R Watanabe, Y Ohashi - … Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2009 - APS
We investigate strong-coupling effects on normal-state properties of an ultracold Fermi gas.
Within the framework of T-matrix approximation in terms of pairing fluctuations, we calculate …