Shina Tan has derived some universal relations that hold for any state of a system consisting of fermions with two spin states that have a large scattering length. These relations involve an intensive quantity called the contact that measures the number of pairs of atoms that are very close together. We show how these relations can be derived in the framework of quantum field theory using standard renormalization methods and the operator product expansion. They allow the contact density to be identified as the expectation value of a local operator constructed out of quantum fields.
The momentum distribution in a Fermi gas with two spin states and a large scattering length has a tail that falls off like 1/k4 at large momentum k, as pointed out by Tan. He used novel methods to derive exact relations between the coefficient of the tail in the momentum distribution and various other properties of the system. We present simple derivations of these relations using the operator product expansion for quantum fields. We identify the coefficient as the integral over space of the expectation value of a local operator that measures the density of pairs.
Universal relations that hold for any state provide powerful constraints on systems consisting of fermions with two spin states interacting with a large scattering length. In radio-frequency (rf) spectroscopy, the mean shift in the rf frequency and the large-frequency tail of the rf transition rate are proportional to the contact, which measures the density of pairs with small separations. We show that these universal relations can be derived and extended by using the short-time operator product expansion of quantum field theory. This is a general method for identifying aspects of many-body physics that are controlled by few-body physics.
In a recent proposal [Jie and Zhang, Phys. Rev. A 95, 060701(R) (2017)], it has been shown that center-of-mass-momentum-dependent two-body interactions can be generated and tuned by Raman coupling the closed-channel bound states in a magnetic Feshbach resonance. Here we investigate the universal relations in a three-dimensional Fermi gas near such a laser modulated
s-wave Feshbach resonance. Using the operator-product expansion approach, we find that to fully describe the high-momentum tail of the density distribution up to ${q}^{\ensuremath{-}6}$ (
q is the relative momentum), four center-of-mass-momentum-dependent parameters are required, which we identify as contacts. These contacts appear in various universal relations connecting microscopic and thermodynamic properties. One contact is related to the variation of energy with respect to the inverse scattering length and determines the leading ${q}^{\ensuremath{-}4}$ tail of the high-momentum distribution. Another vector contact appears in the subleading ${q}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$ tail, which is related to the velocity of closed-channel molecules. The other two contacts emerge in the ${q}^{\ensuremath{-}6}$ tail and are respectively related to the variation of energy with respect to the range parameter and to the kinetic energy of closed-channel molecules. Particularly, we find that the ${q}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$ tail and part of the ${q}^{\ensuremath{-}6}$ tail of the momentum distribution show anisotropic features. We derive the universal relations and, as a concrete example, estimate the contacts for the zero-temperature superfluid ground state of the system using a mean-field approach.
We elucidate universal many-body properties of a one-dimensional, two-component ultracold Fermi gas near the
p-wave Feshbach resonance. The low-energy scattering in this system can be characterized by two parameters, that is,
p-wave scattering length and effective range. At the unitarity limit where the
p-wave scattering length diverges and the effective range is reduced to zero without conflicting with the causality bound, the system obeys universal thermodynamics as observed in a unitary Fermi gas with contact
s-wave interaction in three dimensions. It is in contrast to a Fermi gas with the
p-wave resonance in three dimensions in which the effective range is inevitably finite. We present the universal equation of state in this unitary
p-wave Fermi gas within the many-body
T-matrix approach as well as the virial expansion method. Moreover, we examine the single-particle spectral function in the high-density regime where the virial expansion is no longer valid. On the basis of the Hartree-like self-energy shift at the divergent scattering length, we conjecture that the equivalence of the Bertsch parameter across spatial dimensions holds even for a one-dimensional unitary
p-wave Fermi gas.
In this work, we present an effective-field theory to describe a two-component Fermi gas near a
d-wave-interaction resonance. The effective-field theory is renormalizable by matching with the low-energy
d-wave scattering phase shift. Based on the effective-field theory, we derive universal properties of the Fermi gas by the operator-product-expansion method. We find that beyond the contacts defined by adiabatic theorems, the asymptotic expressions of the momentum distribution and the Raman spectroscopy involve two extra contacts which provide additional information on correlations of the system. Our formalism sets the stage for further explorations of many-body effects in a
d-wave resonant Fermi gas. Finally, we generalize our effective-field theory for interaction resonances of arbitrary higher partial waves.