@article{discovery1332997, month = {June}, number = {24}, journal = {PHYS REV LETT}, publisher = {AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC}, year = {2005}, title = {Fermion-mediated BCS-BEC crossover in ultracold K-40 gases}, note = {{\copyright} 2005 The American Physical Society}, volume = {94}, keywords = {BOSE-CONDENSATION, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.240402}, issn = {0031-9007}, abstract = {Studies of Feshbach resonance phenomena in fermionic alkali gases have drawn heavily on the intuition afforded by a Fermi-Bose theory which presents the Feshbach molecule as a featureless Bose particle. While this model may provide a suitable platform to explore the Li-6 system, we argue that its application to K-40, where the hyperfine structure is inverted, is inappropriate. Introducing a three-state Fermi model, where a spin state is shared by the open and closed channel states, we show that effects of "Pauli blocking" appear in the internal structure of the condensate wave function.}, author = {Parish, MM and Mihaila, B and Simons, BD and Littlewood, PB} }