We study Fermi liquid properties of a weakly interacting 2D gas of single-component fermionic polar molecules with dipole moments
d oriented perpendicularly to the plane of their translational motion. This geometry allows the minimization of inelastic losses due to chemical reactions for reactive molecules and, at the same time, provides a possibility of a clear description of many-body (beyond mean field) effects. The long-range character of the dipole-dipole repulsive interaction between the molecules, which scales as
1/r3 at large distances
r, makes the problem drastically different from the well-known problem of the two-species Fermi gas with repulsive contact interspecies interaction. We solve the low-energy scattering problem and develop a many-body perturbation theory beyond the mean field. The theory relies on the presence of a small parameter
kFr∗, where
kF is the Fermi momentum, and
r∗=md2/ℏ2 is the dipole-dipole length, with
m being the molecule mass. We obtain thermodynamic quantities as a series of expansion up to the second order in
kFr∗ and argue that many-body corrections to the ground-state energy can be identified in experiments with ultracold molecules, like it has been recently done for ultracold fermionic atoms. Moreover, we show that only many-body effects provide the existence of zero sound and calculate the sound velocity.
We study Fermi-liquid properties of a weakly interacting two-dimensional gas of single-component fermionic polar molecules with dipole moments
d oriented perpendicularly to the plane of their translational motion. This geometry allows the minimization of inelastic losses due to chemical reactions for reactive molecules and, at the same time, provides a possibility of a clear description of many-body (beyond mean-field) effects. The long-range character of the dipole-dipole repulsive interaction between the molecules, which scales as
1/r3 at large distances
r, makes the problem drastically different from the well-known problem of the two-species Fermi gas with repulsive contact interspecies interaction. We solve the low-energy scattering problem and develop a many-body perturbation theory beyond the mean field. The theory relies on the presence of a small parameter
kFr∗, where
kF is the Fermi momentum and ${r}_{*}=m{d}^{2}/{\ensuremath{\hbar}}^{2}$ is the dipole-dipole length, with
m being the molecule mass. We obtain thermodynamic quantities as a series of expansion up to the second order in
kFr∗ and argue that many-body corrections to the ground-state energy can be identified in experiments with ultracold molecules, as it has been recently done for ultracold fermionic atoms. Moreover, we show that only many-body effects provide the existence of zero sound and calculate the sound velocity.
We examine collective modes, stability, and BCS pairing in a quasi-two-dimensional gas of dipolar fermions aligned by an external field. By using the (conserving) Hartree-Fock approximation, which treats direct and exchange interactions on an equal footing, we obtain the spectrum of single-particle excitations and long-wavelength collective modes (zero sound) in the normal phase. It appears that exchange interactions result in strong damping of zero sound when the tilting angle between the dipoles and the normal to the plane of confinement is below some critical value. In particular, zero sound cannot propagate if the dipoles are perpendicular to the plane of confinement. At intermediate coupling, we find unstable modes that can lead either to collapse of the system or to the formation of a density wave. The BCS transition to a superfluid phase, on the other hand, occurs at arbitrarily weak strengths of the dipole-dipole interaction, provided the tilting angle exceeds a critical value. We determine the critical temperature of the transition, taking into account many-body effects as well as virtual transitions to higher excited states in the confining potential, and discuss prospects of experimental observations.
We investigate collective excitations in a dipolar and non-dipolar Fermi gas mixture at zero temperature.We obtain the density-density correlation functions of the mixtures in the ring diagram approximation.We analyze the dispersion relation determined by the poles of the density-density correlation functions and find two different types of collective modes: the undamped zero sound and the overdamped modes.We show that the undamped zero sound mode exists only at long wavelengths and the speed of undamped zero sound varies with the propagation direction due to an anisotropy of the dipolar interaction between dipolar fermions.We also show that the decay rate of the overdamped mode decreases as the inter-particle interaction strength between dipolar and non-dipolar fermions increases and the overdamped mode is replaced by unstable one if the inter-particle interaction strength is much strong.
We study the Fermi liquid properties of the cold atomic dipolar Fermi gases with the explicit dipolar anisotropy using perturbative approaches. Due to the explicit dipolar anisotropy, Fermi surfaces exhibit distortions of the ${d}_{{r}^{2}\ensuremath{-}3{z}^{2}}$ type in three dimensions and of the ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$ type in two dimensions. The fermion self-energy, effective mass, and Fermi velocity develop the same anisotropy at the Hartree-Fock level proportional to the interaction strength. The Landau interaction parameters in the isotropic Fermi liquids become the tridiagonal Landau interaction matrices in the dipolar Fermi liquids which renormalize thermodynamic susceptibilities. With large dipolar interaction strength, the Fermi surface collapses along directions perpendicular to the dipole orientation. The dynamic collective zero sound modes exhibit an anisotropic dispersion with the largest sound velocity propagating along the polar directions. Similarly, the longitudinal
p-wave channel spin mode becomes a propagating mode with an anisotropic dispersion in multicomponent dipolar systems.