The BCS–BEC crossover: From ultra-cold Fermi gases to nuclear systems

GC Strinati, P Pieri, G Röpke, P Schuck, M Urban - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This report addresses topics and questions of common interest in the fields of ultra-cold
gases and nuclear physics in the context of the BCS–BEC crossover. By this crossover, the …

Many-body physics with ultracold gases

I Bloch, J Dalibard, W Zwerger - Reviews of modern physics, 2008 - APS
This paper reviews recent experimental and theoretical progress concerning many-body
phenomena in dilute, ultracold gases. It focuses on effects beyond standard weak-coupling …

Quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases

I Bloch, J Dalibard, S Nascimbene - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Ultracold quantum gases offer a unique setting for quantum simulation of interacting many-
body systems. The high degree of controllability, the novel detection possibilities and the …

Relativistic mean-field hadronic models under nuclear matter constraints

M Dutra, O Lourenço, SS Avancini, BV Carlson… - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
Background: The microscopic composition and properties of infinite hadronic matter at a
wide range of densities and temperatures have been subjects of intense investigation for …

Revealing the superfluid lambda transition in the universal thermodynamics of a unitary Fermi gas

MJH Ku, AT Sommer, LW Cheuk, MW Zwierlein - Science, 2012 - science.org
Fermi gases, collections of fermions such as neutrons and electrons, are found throughout
nature, from solids to neutron stars. Interacting Fermi gases can form a superfluid or, for …

Skyrme interaction and nuclear matter constraints

M Dutra, O Lourenço, JS Sá Martins, A Delfino… - Physical Review C …, 2012 - APS
This paper presents a detailed assessment of the ability of the 240 Skyrme interaction
parameter sets in the literature to satisfy a series of criteria derived from macroscopic …

Theory of ultracold atomic Fermi gases

S Giorgini, LP Pitaevskii, S Stringari - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2008 - APS
The physics of quantum degenerate atomic Fermi gases in uniform as well as in
harmonically trapped configurations is reviewed from a theoretical perspective. Emphasis is …

Crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer to Bose-Einstein condensation and the unitary Fermi gas

M Randeria, E Taylor - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2014 - annualreviews.org
The crossover from weak-coupling Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) pairing to a Bose-
Einstein condensate (BEC) of tightly bound pairs, as a function of the attractive interaction in …

Exploring the thermodynamics of a universal Fermi gas

S Nascimbène, N Navon, KJ Jiang, F Chevy… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
One of the greatest challenges in modern physics is to understand the behaviour of an
ensemble of strongly interacting particles. A class of quantum many-body systems (such as …

Gravity duals for nonrelativistic conformal field theories

K Balasubramanian, J McGreevy - Physical Review Letters, 2008 - APS
We attempt to generalize the anti–de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence to
nonrelativistic conformal field theories which are invariant under Galilean transformations …