Pair-Condensation Peak in Radio-Frequency Dimer-Projection Spectroscopy of a Unitary Fermi Gas
Abstract
Radio-frequency dimer-projection spectroscopy has recently emerged as a powerful probe of strongly interacting Fermi gases, yet its frequency-resolved spectrum remains largely unexplored. Here we show that the spectrum exhibits two qualitatively distinct features: a broad quasiparticle continuum governed by fermionic pairing and a sharp pair-condensation peak arising from the coherent projection of condensed Cooper pairs onto the final-state dimer. To reveal this physics, we develop a point-dimer approximation that exploits the separation between the molecular and many-body length scales and expresses the radio-frequency response directly in terms of pair correlations in the initial many-body state. Within the BCS mean-field theory, we derive the frequency-dependent spectrum, identify the microscopic transfer processes underlying its structure, and show that the continuum possesses a threshold determined by the superfluid gap. Our theory establishes radio-frequency dimer-projection spectroscopy as a unified probe of short-range correlations, fermionic pairing, and long-range coherence in strongly interacting Fermi gases.
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BibTeX
@misc{peng2026paircondensation,
title = {{Pair-Condensation Peak in Radio-Frequency Dimer-Projection Spectroscopy of a Unitary Fermi Gas}},
author = {Zhixiu Peng and Zhenhua Yu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.41770},
eprint = {2610.41770},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41770},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Pair-Condensation Peak in Radio-Frequency Dimer-Projection Spectroscopy of a Unitary Fermi Gas
AU - Zhixiu Peng
AU - Zhenhua Yu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/30
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.41770
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41770
AB - Radio-frequency dimer-projection spectroscopy has recently emerged as a powerful probe of strongly interacting Fermi gases, yet its frequency-resolved spectrum remains largely unexplored. Here we show that the spectrum exhibits two qualitatively distinct features: a broad quasiparticle continuum governed by fermionic pairing and a sharp pair-condensation peak arising from the coherent projection of condensed Cooper pairs onto the final-state dimer. To reveal this physics, we develop a point-dimer approximation that exploits the separation between the molecular and many-body length scales and expresses the radio-frequency response directly in terms of pair correlations in the initial many-body state. Within the BCS mean-field theory, we derive the frequency-dependent spectrum, identify the microscopic transfer processes underlying its structure, and show that the continuum possesses a threshold determined by the superfluid gap. Our theory establishes radio-frequency dimer-projection spectroscopy as a unified probe of short-range correlations, fermionic pairing, and long-range coherence in strongly interacting Fermi gases.
ER -