Cold Fermionic Atoms in Two-Dimensional Traps -- Pairing versus Hund's Rule
arXiv:0806.3780 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.060401
Abstract
The microscopic properties of few interacting cold fermionic atoms confined in a two-dimensional (2D) harmonic trap are studied by numerical diagonalization. For repulsive interactions, a strong shell structure dominates, with Hund's rule acting at its extreme for the mid-shell configurations. In the attractive case, odd-even oscillations due to pairing occur simultaneously with deformations in the internal structure of the ground states, as seen from pair correlation functions.
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