TY - JOUR A1 - Pu, Han A1 - Zhang, Weiping A1 - Wilkens, Martin A1 - Meystre, Pierre T1 - Phonon Spectrum and Dynamical Stability of a Dilute Quantum Degenerate Bose-Fermi Mixture N2 - 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. Y1 - 2002 ER -