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Sound velocity and dimensional crossover in a superfluid Fermi gas in an optical lattice

T. Koponen, J. -P. Martikainen, J. Kinnunen, P. Torma

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0512010

Abstract

We study the sound velocity in cubic and non-cubic three-dimensional optical lattices. We show how the van Hove singularity of the free Fermi gas is smoothened by interactions and eventually vanishes when interactions are strong enough. For non-cubic lattices, we show that the speed of sound (Bogoliubov-Anderson phonon) shows clear signatures of dimensional crossover both in the 1D and 2D limits.

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