Phys. Rev. A 71, 023609 (2005) [5 pages]Pair wave functions in atomic Fermi condensatesReceived 28 April 2004; published 24 February 2005 Recent experiments have observed condensation behavior in a strongly interacting system of fermionic atoms. We interpret these observations in terms of a mean-field version of resonance superfluidity theory. We find that the objects condensed are not bosonic molecules composed of bound fermion pairs, but are rather spatially correlated Cooper pairs whose coherence length is comparable to the mean spacing between atoms. We propose experiments that will help to further probe these novel pairs. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.023609
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.71.023609
PACS:
03.75.Ss, 33.90.+h, 36.90.+f
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