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Universal relations and normal phase of an ultracold Fermi gas with coexisting - and -wave interactions

arXiv:1610.00223 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.94.063616

Abstract

We study the universal relations and normal-phase thermodynamics of a two-component ultracold Fermi gas with coexisting - and -wave interactions. Due to the orthogonality of two-body wave functions of different scattering channels, the universal thermodynamic relations of the system appear to be direct summations of contributions from each partial-wave scattering channels. These universal relations are dictated by a set of contacts, which can be associated with either - or -wave interactions. Interestingly, due to the interplay of - and -wave interactions on the many-body level, the contacts, and hence all the relevant thermodynamic quantities, behave differently from those with only - or -wave interactions. These are manifest in our numerical calculations based on second-order virial expansions for K atoms under typical experimental parameters. A particularly interesting finding is that, due to the coexistence of - and -wave scatterings, the interaction energy of the repulsive branch features abrupt changes across the -wave resonances. Our results can be readily checked experimentally for K atoms near the G -wave Feshbach resonance, where multiple partial-wave scatterings naturally coexist.

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