Critical Josephson current in BCS-BEC–crossover superfluids
M. Zaccanti, W. Zwerger
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.063601 · Physical Review A
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Abstract
We develop a microscopic model to describe the Josephson tunneling between two superfluid reservoirs of ultracold fermionic atoms which accounts for the dependence of the critical current on both the barrier height and the interaction strength along the crossover from the BCS to the BEC regime. Building on a previous study [F. Meier and W. Zwerger, Phys. Rev. A 64, 033610 (2001)] of weakly interacting bosons, we derive analytic results for the Josephson critical current at zero temperature for homogeneous and trapped systems at arbitrary coupling. The critical current exhibits a maximum near the unitarity limit which arises from the competition between the increasing condensate fraction and a decrease in the chemical potential along the evolution from the BCS to the BEC limit. Our results agree quantitatively with numerical simulations and recent experimental data.
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