https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2015-50284-6
Regular Article
A real space auxiliary field approach to the BCS-BEC crossover
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, 211019
Allahabad,
India
a e-mail: terubrahms@gmail.com
Received:
5
May
2014
Received in final form:
6
October
2014
Published online:
19
March
2015
The BCS to BEC crossover in attractive Fermi systems is a prototype of weak to strong coupling evolution in many body physics. While extensive numerical results are available, and several approximate methods have been developed, most of these schemes are unsuccessful in the presence of spatial inhomogeneity. Such situations call for a real space approach that can handle large spatial scales and retain the crucial thermal fluctuations. With this in mind we present comprehensive results of a real space auxiliary field approach to the BCS to BEC crossover in the attractive Hubbard model in two dimensions. The scheme reproduces the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov ground state, and leads to a Tc scale that agrees with quantum Monte Carlo estimates to within a few percent. We provide results on the Tc, amplitude and phase fluctuations, density of states, and the momentum resolved spectral function, over the entire interaction and temperature window. We suggest how the method generalises successfully to the presence of disorder, trapping, and population imbalance.
Key words: Solid State and Materials
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