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We develop an extension of the well-known BCS-theory to systems with trapped fermionic atoms. The theory fully includes the quantized energy levels in the trap. The key ingredient is to model the attractive interaction between two atoms by a pseudo-potential which leads to a well defined scattering problem and consequently to a BCS-theory free of divergences. We present numerical results for the BCS critical temperature and the temperature dependence of the gap. They are used as a test of existing semi-classical approximations.
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Received 18 December 1998
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Bruun, G., Castin, Y., Dum, R. et al. BCS theory for trapped ultracold fermions. Eur. Phys. J. D 7, 433–439 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050587
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050587