Derivation of the effective action of a dilute Fermi gas in the unitary limit of the BCS–BEC crossover

The effective action describing the gapless Nambu–Goldstone, or Anderson–Bogoliubov, mode of a zero-temperature dilute Fermi gas at unitarity is derived up to next-to-leading order in derivatives from the microscopic theory. Apart from a next-to-leading order term that is suppressed in the BCS limit, the effective action obtained in the strong-coupling unitary limit is proportional to that obtained in the weak-coupling BCS limit.