理論セミナー

日時: 2009-12-21 13:30 - 14:30
場所: 研究本館3階322室
会議名: Universal few-body and many-body physics in mixed dimensions
連絡先: 安井、yasuis AT post.kek.jp
講演者: Yosuke Nishida  (MIT)
講演言語: 日本語
アブストラクト: After a very brief introduction to the recent achievement in ultracold atom experiments (BCS-BEC crossover, unitary Fermi gas, ...), we propose a two-species Fermi gas in which one species (e.g. 40K) is confined in 2D planes or 1D lines and interacts with the other species (e.g. 6Li) in the 3D space by a tunable short-range interaction. We show that such a Fermi gas in mixed dimensions has interesting physics both in few-body and many-body physics. In few-body physics, the confinement acting only on one species can induce a new type of resonances both in 2-body and 3-body scatterings. In particular, the 3-body resonances are due to the emergence of the Efimov effect that does not exist in the 40K-6Li mixture in a free space. In many-body physics, the system has a very rich phase diagram in the plane of the effective scattering length and the interlayer separation. Resulting phases include an interlayer s-wave pairing, an intralayer p-wave pairing, a dimer Bose-Einstein condensation, and a Fermi gas of Efimov-like trimers. Our system in a certain limit can be thought of as a nonrelativistic defect CFT and thus string theorists may want to consider its gravity dual.

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