Mechanical stability of resonant Bose-Fermi mixtures
We investigate the mechanical stability of Bose-Fermi mixtures at zero temperature in the presence of a tunable Feshbach resonance, which induces a competition between boson condensation and boson-fermion pairing when the boson density is smaller than the fermion density. Using a many-body diagramma...
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| author | Christian Gualerzi, Leonardo Pisani, Pierbiagio Pieri |
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| description | We investigate the mechanical stability of Bose-Fermi mixtures at zero temperature in the presence of a tunable Feshbach resonance, which induces a competition between boson condensation and boson-fermion pairing when the boson density is smaller than the fermion density. Using a many-body diagrammatic approach validated by fixed-node Quantum Monte Carlo calculations and supported by recent experimental observations, we determine the minimal amount of boson-boson repulsion required to guarantee the stability of the mixture across the entire range of boson-fermion interactions from weak to strong coupling. Our stability phase diagrams indicate that mixtures with boson-to-fermion mass ratios near two, such as the $^{87}$Rb-$^{40}$K system, exhibit optimal stability conditions. Moreover, by applying our results to a recent experiment with a $^{23}$Na-$^{40}$K mixture, we find that the boson-boson repulsion was insufficient to ensure stability, suggesting that the experimental timescale was short enough to avoid mechanical collapse. On the other hand, we also show that even in the absence of boson-boson repulsion, Bose-Fermi mixtures become intrinsically stable beyond a certain coupling strength, preceding the quantum phase transition associated with the vanishing of the bosonic condensate. We thus propose an experimental protocol for observing this quantum phase transition in a mechanically stable configuration. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ebc9865cb8874c79bf36328c3a7553e72025-08-20T04:01:01ZengSciPostSciPost Physics2542-46532025-08-0119203910.21468/SciPostPhys.19.2.039Mechanical stability of resonant Bose-Fermi mixturesChristian Gualerzi, Leonardo Pisani, Pierbiagio PieriWe investigate the mechanical stability of Bose-Fermi mixtures at zero temperature in the presence of a tunable Feshbach resonance, which induces a competition between boson condensation and boson-fermion pairing when the boson density is smaller than the fermion density. Using a many-body diagrammatic approach validated by fixed-node Quantum Monte Carlo calculations and supported by recent experimental observations, we determine the minimal amount of boson-boson repulsion required to guarantee the stability of the mixture across the entire range of boson-fermion interactions from weak to strong coupling. Our stability phase diagrams indicate that mixtures with boson-to-fermion mass ratios near two, such as the $^{87}$Rb-$^{40}$K system, exhibit optimal stability conditions. Moreover, by applying our results to a recent experiment with a $^{23}$Na-$^{40}$K mixture, we find that the boson-boson repulsion was insufficient to ensure stability, suggesting that the experimental timescale was short enough to avoid mechanical collapse. On the other hand, we also show that even in the absence of boson-boson repulsion, Bose-Fermi mixtures become intrinsically stable beyond a certain coupling strength, preceding the quantum phase transition associated with the vanishing of the bosonic condensate. We thus propose an experimental protocol for observing this quantum phase transition in a mechanically stable configuration.https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.2.039 |
| spellingShingle | Christian Gualerzi, Leonardo Pisani, Pierbiagio Pieri Mechanical stability of resonant Bose-Fermi mixtures SciPost Physics |
| title | Mechanical stability of resonant Bose-Fermi mixtures |
| title_full | Mechanical stability of resonant Bose-Fermi mixtures |
| title_fullStr | Mechanical stability of resonant Bose-Fermi mixtures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mechanical stability of resonant Bose-Fermi mixtures |
| title_short | Mechanical stability of resonant Bose-Fermi mixtures |
| title_sort | mechanical stability of resonant bose fermi mixtures |
| url | https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.2.039 |
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