Phys. Rev. A 72, 013612 (2005) [5 pages]Internal Josephson effect in a Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonanceReceived 7 April 2004; revised 17 May 2005; published 21 July 2005 We consider a two-component system of Fermi atoms and molecular bosons in the vicinity of a narrow Feshbach resonance. We derive an effective action for the system, which has a term describing coherent tunneling of the molecular bosons into Cooper pairs and vice versa. In the equilibrium regime, phase coherence between atom pairs and molecules may be destroyed by thermal or quantum phase fluctuations. In the nonequilibrium regime, the system may show an internal ac Josephson effect leading to real time oscillations in the number of molecular bosons. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.013612
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.013612
PACS:
03.75.Lm, 03.75.Kk, 74.50.+r
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