TY - JOUR AU - A. Avdeenkov AU - John Bohn AB - Recent experiments have observed condensation behavior in a strongly interacting system of fermionic atoms. We interpret these observations in terms of a mean-field version of resonance superfluidity theory. We find that the objects condensed are not bosonic molecules composed of bound fermion pairs, but are rather spatially correlated Cooper pairs whose coherence length is comparable to the mean spacing between atoms. We propose experiments that will help to further probe these novel pairs. BT - Physical Review A DA - 2005-05 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.023609 N2 - Recent experiments have observed condensation behavior in a strongly interacting system of fermionic atoms. We interpret these observations in terms of a mean-field version of resonance superfluidity theory. We find that the objects condensed are not bosonic molecules composed of bound fermion pairs, but are rather spatially correlated Cooper pairs whose coherence length is comparable to the mean spacing between atoms. We propose experiments that will help to further probe these novel pairs. PY - 2005 EP - 023609 T2 - Physical Review A TI - Pair wave functions in atomic Fermi condensates VL - 71 SN - 1050-2947 ER -