Zero sound in a mixture of a single-component fermion gas and a Bose-Einstein condensate

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Dec 17;93(25):250402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.250402. Epub 2004 Dec 14.

Abstract

The resonant dynamics of mediated interactions supports zero sound in a cold atom degenerate mixture of a single-component fermion gas and a Bose-Einstein condensate. We characterize the onset of instability in the phase separation of an unstable mixture and we find a rich collective mode structure for stable mixtures with one undamped mode that exhibits an avoided crossing and a Landau-damped mode that terminates.