@article{PuZhangWilkensetal.2002, author = {Pu, Han and Zhang, Weiping and Wilkens, Martin and Meystre, Pierre}, title = {Phonon Spectrum and Dynamical Stability of a Dilute Quantum Degenerate Bose-Fermi Mixture}, year = {2002}, abstract = {We calculate the phonon excistation spectrum in a zero-temperature dilute boson-fermion gaseous mixture. We show how the sound velocity changes due to the boson-fermion interaction, and we determine the dynamical stability regime of a homogeneous mixture. We identify a resonant phonon-exchange interaction between the fermions as the physical mechanism leading to the instability.}, language = {en} }