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Phys. Rev. B 78, 134517 (2008) [7 pages]

Phase separation and collapse in Bose-Fermi mixtures with a Feshbach resonance

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Francesca M. Marchetti*
Rudolf Peirels Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom

Charles J. M. Mathy and David A. Huse
Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

Meera M. Parish
Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA and Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

Received 4 January 2008; revised 14 August 2008; published 14 October 2008

We consider a mixture of single-component bosonic and fermionic atoms with an interspecies interaction that is varied using a Feshbach resonance. By performing a mean-field analysis of a two-channel model, which describes both narrow and broad Feshbach resonances, we find an unexpectedly rich phase diagram at zero temperature: Bose-condensed and non-Bose-condensed phases form a variety of phase-separated states that are accompanied by both critical and tricritical points. We discuss the implications of our results for the experimentally observed collapse of Bose-Fermi mixtures on the attractive side of the Feshbach resonance, and we make predictions for future experiments on Bose-Fermi mixtures close to a Feshbach resonance.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.134517
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.134517
PACS:
03.75.Ss, 64.60.Kw, 05.30.Jp, 03.75.Hh

*fmm25@cam.ac.uk

mparish@princeton.edu