TY - JOUR
T1 - BEC-BCS crossover and universal relations in unitary Fermi gases
AU - Gandolfi, S.
AU - Schmidt, Kevin
AU - Carlson, J.
PY - 2011/4/1
Y1 - 2011/4/1
N2 - The contact parameter in unitary Fermi gases governs the short-range correlations and high-momentum properties of the system. We perform accurate quantum Monte Carlo calculations with highly optimized trial functions to precisely determine this parameter at T=0, demonstrate its universal application to a variety of observables, and determine the regions of momentum and energy over which the leading short-range behavior is dominant. We derive Tan's expressions for the contact parameter using just the short-range behavior of the ground-state many-body wave function, and use this behavior to calculate the two-body distribution function, one-body density matrix, and the momentum distribution of unitary Fermi gases; providing a precise value of the contact parameter that can be compared to experiments.
AB - The contact parameter in unitary Fermi gases governs the short-range correlations and high-momentum properties of the system. We perform accurate quantum Monte Carlo calculations with highly optimized trial functions to precisely determine this parameter at T=0, demonstrate its universal application to a variety of observables, and determine the regions of momentum and energy over which the leading short-range behavior is dominant. We derive Tan's expressions for the contact parameter using just the short-range behavior of the ground-state many-body wave function, and use this behavior to calculate the two-body distribution function, one-body density matrix, and the momentum distribution of unitary Fermi gases; providing a precise value of the contact parameter that can be compared to experiments.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.041601
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.041601
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960684892
SN - 1050-2947
VL - 83
JO - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
JF - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 041601
ER -