{
  "id": "cond-mat/0111440",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-11-22T19:45:17.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-11-22T19:45:17.000Z",
  "title": "Characteristic length scale and energy of a vortex line in a dilute, superfluid Fermi gas",
  "authors": [
    "O. Elgaroy"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 2 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "We calculate the characteristic length scale of a vortex line in a dilute, superfluid gas of fermionic atoms, and find that it is in general smaller, and has a weaker density dependence than the BCS coherence length. Taking this into account, we find the energy of a vortex line to be larger than has previously been estimated. As a consequence, the critical frequency for formation of vortices in trapped fermion gases can be significantly larger than earlier calculations have suggested.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-11-22T19:45:17.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "characteristic length scale",
      "vortex line",
      "superfluid fermi gas",
      "weaker density dependence",
      "bcs coherence length"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2001cond.mat.11440E"
    }
  }
}