Resonance superfluidity in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas

Abstract

We consider the superfluid phase transition that arises when a Feshbach resonance pairing occurs in a dilute Fermi gas. We apply our theory to consider a specific resonance in potassium-40, and find that for achievable experimental conditions, the transition to a superfluid phase is possible at the high critical temperature of about 0.5 T_F. Observation of superfluidity in this regime would provide the opportunity to experimentally study the crossover from the superfluid phase of weakly-coupled fermions to the Bose-Einstein condensation of strongly-bound composite bosons.