title: Collective modes and ballistic expansion of a fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover.
abstract: We evaluate the frequencies of collective modes and the anisotropic expansion rate of a harmonically trapped Fermi superfluid at varying coupling strengths across a Feshbach resonance driving a BCS-BEC crossover. The equations of motion for the superfluid are obtained from a microscopic mean-field expression for the compressibility and are solved within a scaling ansatz. Our results confirm nonmonotonic behavior in the crossover region and are in quantitative agreement with current measurements of the transverse breathing mode by Kinast et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150402 (2004)]] and of the axial breathing mode by Bartenstein et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 203201 (2004)]].
authors.affiliation: NEST-INFM and Classe di Scienze, Scuola Normale Superiore, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Minguzzi
authors.forename: Xia-Ji
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Tosi