Stability of resonantly interacting heavy-light Fermi mixtures
arXiv:1207.2356 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.86.174518
Abstract
We investigate a two-component mixture of resonantly interacting Fermi gases as a function of the ratio κof the heavy to the light mass of the two species. The diffusion Monte Carlo method is used to calculate the ground-state energy and the pair correlation function starting from two different guiding wave functions, which describe respectively the superfluid and the normal state of the gas. Results show that the mixture is stable and superfluid for mass ratios smaller than the critical value κ_c = 13 +/- 1. For larger values of κsimulations utilizing the wave function of the normal state are unstable towards cluster formation. The relevant cluster states driving the instability appear to be formed by one light particle and two or more heavy particles within distances on the order of the range of the interatomic potential. The small overlap between the wave function of the trimer bound state and the guiding wave function used to describe the superfluid state produces the unphysical stability of the superfluid gas above κ_c.
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