Pseudogap in Fermionic Density of States in the BCS-BEC Crossover of Atomic Fermi Gases

Abstract

We study pseudogap behaviors of ultracold Fermi gases in the BCS-BEC crossover region. We calculate the density of states (DOS), as well as the single-particle spectral weight, above the superfluid transition temperature T _c including pairing fluctuations within a T-matrix approximation. We find that DOS exhibits a pseudogap structure in the BCS-BEC crossover region, which is most remarkable near the unitarity limit. We determine the pseudogap temperature T ^* at which the pseudogap structure in DOS disappears. We also introduce another temperature T ^** at which the BCS-like double-peak structure disappears in the spectral weight. While one finds T ^*>T ^** in the BCS regime, T ^** becomes higher than T ^* in the crossover and BEC regime. We also determine the pseudogap region in the phase diagram in terms of temperature and pairing interaction.