BCS-BEC Crossover in Neutron Matter with RMF Effective Pairing Interaction

Based on the relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in nuclear matter, the dineutron correlations and the crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) region of neutron Cooper pairs to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) are investigated with the one-boson-exchange type of pairing force generated from the relativistic mean field (RMF) model. By introducing an effective factor χ in the RMF effective pairing interaction, the density dependence of the ratios between neutron pairing gap at Fermi surface and neutron Fermi kinetic energy △_Fn/e_Fn and the dimensionless parameter 1/(k_Fna) are analyzed quantitatively. Then the criteria where dineutron correlations exactly reach the threshold of BCS-BEC crossover or unitary limit are determined to be χ=0.51 or 0.67, respectively. In addition, features of neutron pairing gap, Cooper pair wave function and dineutron coherence length are illustrated, and the value of the probability for partner neutrons correlated within the average inter-neutron distance, namely P (d_n) ≃0.80, is obtained as a criterion of BCS-BEC crossover.