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arXiv:1305.4411 · Physical Review Letters

Ground-State Pressure of Quasi-2D Fermi and Bose Gases

Vasiliy Makhalov, Kirill Martiyanov, Andrey V. Turlapov

Published Jan 27, 2014• 129 citations
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Abstract

Using an ultracold gas of atoms, we have realized a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi system with widely tunable s-wave interactions nearly in a ground state. Pressure and density are measured. The experiment covers physically different regimes: weakly and strongly attractive Fermi gases and a Bose gas of tightly bound pairs of fermions. In the Fermi regime of weak interactions, the pressure is systematically above a Fermi-liquid-theory prediction, maybe due to mesoscopic effects. In the opposite Bose regime, the pressure agrees with a bosonic mean-field scaling in a range beyond simplest expectations. In the strongly interacting regime, measurements disagree with a purely 2D model. Reported data may serve for sensitive testing of theoretical methods applicable across different quantum physics disciplines.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.112.045301

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We report the experimental measurement of the equation of state of a two-dimensional Fermi gas with attractive s-wave interactions throughout the crossover from a weakly coupled Fermi gas to a Bose gas of tightly bound dimers as the interaction strength is varied. We demonstrate that interactions lead to a renormalization of the density of the Fermi gas by several orders of magnitude. We compare our data near the ground state and at finite temperature with predictions for both fermions and bosons from quantum Monte Carlo simulations and Luttinger-Ward theory. Our results serve as input for investigations of close-to-equilibrium dynamics and transport in the two-dimensional system.
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We report the experimental measurement of the equation of state of a two-dimensional Fermi gas with attractive s-wave interactions throughout the crossover from a weakly coupled Fermi gas to a Bose gas of tightly bound dimers as the interaction strength is varied.We demonstrate that interactions lead to a renormalization of the density of the Fermi gas by several orders of magnitude.We compare our data near the ground state and at finite temperature with predictions for both fermions and bosons from quantum Monte Carlo simulations and Luttinger-Ward theory.Our results serve as input for investigations of close-to-equilibrium dynamics and transport in the two-dimensional system.
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We show that atomic Fermi gases in quasi-two-dimensional (2D) geometries are promising for achieving superfluidity. In the regime of BCS pairing for weak attraction, we calculate the critical temperature Tc{T}_{c}Tc​ and analyze possibilities of increasing the ratio of Tc{T}_{c}Tc​ to the Fermi energy. In the opposite limit, where a strong coupling leads to the formation of weakly bound quasi-2D dimers, we find that their Bose-Einstein condensate will be stable on a long time scale.