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PHYSICAL REVIEW A 81, 033608 (2010) BCS-BEC crossover with unequal-mass fermions * Roberto B. Diener and Mohit Randeria Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA (Received 23 June 2009; published 15 March 2010) We investigate the crossover from BCS pairing to molecular Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in an atomic gas with two fermion species with masses m↑ = m↓ tuned through a Feshbach resonance. We present results for the T = 0 equation of state as a function of the scattering length including the effects of Gaussian fluctuations about the mean field ground state. We compute the ground state energy as a function of m↑/m↓ at unitarity and 40 6 find excellent agreement with the quantum Monte Carlo result for m↑/m↓ = 6.67 for a K- Li mixture. We show that the dimer scattering length in the BEC limit as a function of m↑/m↓ compares well with the exact four-body results of Petrov et al. [J. Phys. B 38, S645 (2005)]. We also derive the condition for trapping frequencies to obtain an unpolarized gas in a harmonic trap. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.033608 PACS number(s): 67.85.−d, 03.75.Ss, 05.30.Fk, 05.30.Pr The crossover [ 1–3] of collective BCS pairing to the channel contributions, are expected to dominate in the low Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of tightly bound molecules density limit even thoug