We investigate the properties of a spinless Fermi gas close to a p-wave interaction resonance. We show that the effects of interaction near a p-wave resonance are captured by two contacts, which are related to the variation of energy with the p-wave scattering volume v and with the effective range R in two adiabatic theorems. Exact pressure and virial relations are derived. We show how the two contacts determine the leading and subleading asymptotic behavior of the momentum distribution (∼1/k^{2} and ∼1/k^{4}) and how they can be measured experimentally by radio-frequency and photoassociation spectroscopies. Finally, we evaluate the two contacts at high temperature with a virial expansion.
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.
Abstract We derive the full set of universal relations for spin-polarized Fermi gases with p -wave interaction in two dimensions, simply using the short-range asymptotic behavior of fermion-pair wave functions. For p -wave interactions, an additional contact related to the effective range needs to be introduced, besides the one related to the scattering volume. Since the subleading tail ( k −4 ) of the large-momentum distribution cannot fully be captured by the contacts defined by the adiabatic relations, an extra term resulted from the center-of-mass motions of the pairs gives rise to an additional divergence in the kinetic energy of the system, besides those related to the contacts defined. We show in Tan’s energy theorem that if only two-body correlations are taken into account, all these divergences are reasonably removed, leading to a finite internal energy of the system. In addition, we find that all the other universal relations, such as the high-frequency behavior of the radio-frequency response, short-range behavior of the pair correlation function, generalized virial theorem, and pressure relation, remain unaffected by the center-of-mass motions of the pairs, and are fully governed by the contacts defined by the adiabatic relations. Our results confirm the feasibility of generalizing the contact theory for higher-partial-wave scatterings, and could readily be confirmed in current experiments with ultracold 40 K and 6 Li atoms.
Universality is a crucial concept in modern physics, which allows us to describe phenomena without referring to microscopic details of systems.The unitary Fermi gas is a prime example, where universal relations among physical observables and a universal equation of state have been developed and studied in detail.In this thesis, we extend these notions beyond the paradigm of the unitary Fermi gas and investigate universal effects of few-body correlations in resonantly interacting ultracold atomic gases.In particular, we discuss (i) universal relations in a spinless Fermi gas with an anisotropic p-wave resonance and (ii) universality of the few-body spectra and the ground-state properties of an impurity-boson system.Firstly, we investigate the universal relations in a spinless Fermi gas with an anisotropic p-wave resonance.We show that the high-momentum distribution and the short-range density-density correlation have characteristic power laws, whose coefficients define the p-wave contact tensor.We derive the adiabatic sweep theorem, which relates the p-wave contact tensor to the total energy.We also discuss the experimental scheme to measure the p-wave contact tensor and test our results.Secondly, we examine the ground states and lower excited states of an impurity resonantly interacting with one, two, and three non-interacting bosons.We calculate the energy spectra of this few-body system with two different models.The overall scale of length depends on the models.However, we find that once we fix the three-body parameter, which is a critical scattering length of the ground-state Efimov trimer, the few-body spectrum is independent of a specific choice of the models.This finding is corroborated by comparing our numerical results with the one obtained by Ardila and Giorgini [Phys.Rev. A 92, 033612 (2015)].Thirdly, we investigate the case in which the mass of an impurity is infinite.In this limit, we show that the model of a Feshbach resonance can be mapped to a bosonic extension of Anderson's single impurity model, which can be used to analytically solve the three-body problem.We find that the ground-state energy with a Feshbach resonance is drastically different from that in a potential-interaction system, and that the former approaches the latter logarithmically as the unitarity limit is taken.We argue This thesis would not have been possible without the help and support of many people.I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Masahito Ueda, for his guidance and sincere encouragement over the period of my PhD program.He was a great teacher; he taught me a lot of things, from the way of a good scientist to a key to happy married life.I would also like to thank my secondary supervisors, Professor Tetsuo Hatsuda and Professor Junji Yumoto, for valuable advice on my study, and sometimes on job hunting.They also organized meetings where I could learn studies of other students.Much of the work in this thesis started during my stay at Quantum Matter group in Monash University, where I greatly benefited from fruitful collaboration with the group members.I am deeply grateful to Professor Meera M. Parish
We present a derivation of the adiabatic energy relations as well as the large momentum distribution of a polarized Fermi gas near
p-wave Feshbach resonances. The leading asymptotic behavior ${k}^{\ensuremath{-}2}$ and subleading behavior ${k}^{\ensuremath{-}4}$ of the large momentum distribution have recently been predicted by Z. Yu et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135304 (2015)] and by M. Y. He et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 045301 (2016)] using two different approaches. Here, we show that the subleading asymptotic behavior ($\ensuremath{\sim}{k}^{\ensuremath{-}4}$) cannot fully be captured by the contact defined from the adiabatic energy relation related to the
p-wave effective range, and there should be an extra term resulting from the center-of-mass motion of the pairs. The omission of this extra term is perhaps a reasonable approximation at zero temperature. However, it should be taken into account at finite temperature and should have significant importance to understand the recently measured momentum distribution in a resonant
p-wave Fermi gas of ultracold
40K atoms [C. Luciuk et al., Nat. Phys. 12, 599 (2016)].
We investigate theoretically strong-coupling and finite-temperature effects on the
p-wave contacts, as well as the asymptotic behavior of the momentum distribution in the large-momentum region in a one-component Fermi gas with a tunable
p-wave interaction. Including
p-wave pairing fluctuations within a strong-coupling theory, we calculate the
p-wave contacts above the superfluid transition temperature
Tc from the adiabatic energy relations. We show that, while the
p-wave contact related to the scattering volume monotonically increases with increasing interaction strength, the one related to the effective range depends nonmonotonically on interaction strength and its sign changes in the intermediate-coupling regime. The nonmonotonic interaction dependence of these quantities is shown to originate from the competition between the increase of the cutoff momentum and the decrease of the coupling constant of the
p-wave interaction with increasing effective range. We also analyze the asymptotic form of the momentum distribution in the large-momentum region. In contrast to the conventional
s-wave case, we show that the asymptotic behavior cannot be completely described by only the
p-wave contacts, and the extra terms, which are not related to the thermodynamic properties, appear. Furthermore, in the high-temperature region, we find that the extra terms dominate the subleading term of the large-momentum distribution. We also directly compare our results with the recent experimental measurement by including the effects of a harmonic trap potential within the local density approximation. We show that, while our model qualitatively explains the dependence on the interaction strength of the
p-wave contacts, there are some quantitative disagreements between our theory and recent experiment; for example, the peak position of the
p-wave contact related to the effective range. Since the
p-wave contacts connect the microscopic properties to the thermodynamic properties of the system, our results would be helpful for further understanding many-body properties of this anisotropic interacting Fermi gas in the normal phase.