Quantum Phase Transition in an Atomic Bose Gas with a Feshbach Resonance

Dec, 2003
4 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 93 (2004) 020405
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We show that in an atomic Bose gas near a Feshbach resonance a quantum phase transition occurs between a phase with only a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate and a phase with both an atomic and a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that the transition is characterized by an Ising order parameter. We also determine the phase diagram of the gas as a function of magnetic field and temperature: the quantum critical point extends into a line of finite temperature Ising transitions.
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