Title
BCS-BEC crossover in multi-band systems with a boson-fermion coupling at zero temperature
Date Issued
15 March 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Instituto Militar de Engenharia
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
We study the crossover between the BCS (Bardeen, Cooper, Schrieffer) and BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate) superfluid states in a multi-band boson-fermion model at zero temperature. We consider an attractive interaction between different fermion states and a hybridization between them. The bosons are composed of tightly bound fermion pairs that coexist and interact with the single fermions, via an isotropic boson-fermion coupling g. At zero temperature, where all bosons are condensed, the model has a superconducting phase characterized by a finite composite order parameter, Δab=Δab-gφ, where Δab and φ are the BCS and BEC order parameters, respectively. The zero temperature phase diagram in terms of Δab and φ is obtained as function of the attractive inter-site interaction, the hybridization, the boson-fermion coupling and the threshold energy for forming a pair of tightly bound fermions. We also discuss the zero temperature BCS-BEC crossover driven by changing the attractive interaction, the boson-fermion coupling strength, and the threshold energy. Our results should be relevant for high temperature superconductors and cold atom systems.
Start page
1
End page
7
Volume
510
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de la materia condensada
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84921510294
Source
Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
ISSN of the container
09214534
Sponsor(s)
We wish to thank the Brazilian agencies, FAPERJ and CNPq for financial support to this work. We would like to thank Professor Heron Caldas for invaluable discussions. D. Reyes would like to thank Professor Sebastian Ujevic for useful discussions on the solution of self-consistent equations and also the APQ1 Grant No. E-26/111.360/2014 from FAPERJ.
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