Recently, we computed third-order corrections to the ground-state energy of an arbitrarily polarized diluted gas of spin-
21 fermions interacting through a spin-independent repulsive two-body potential. Here we extend this result to the gas of spin-
s fermions [a system whose Hamiltonian has an accidental
SU(2s+1) symmetry] with arbitrary densities of fermions having different spin projections. The corrections are computed semianalytically using the effective-field-theory approach and are parametrized by the
s- and
p-wave scattering lengths
a0 and
a1 and the
s-wave effective radius
r0, measurable in the low-energy fermion-fermion elastic scattering. The result is used to study the impact the higher-order corrections can have on the characteristics of the phase transition (at zero temperature) to the ordered phase (on the emergence of the itinerant ferromagnetism).
The effective field theory approach simplifies the perturbative computation of the ground-state energy of the diluted gas of repulsively interacting fermions allowing in the case of the unpolarized system to easily rederive the classic results up to the
(kFa0)2 order (where
kF is the system's Fermi momentum and
a0 the
s-wave scattering length) and (with more labor) to extend it up to the order
(kFa0)4. The analogous expansion of the ground-state energy of the polarized gas of spin
1/2 fermions is known only up to the
kFa0 order (where
kF stands for ${k}_{\mathrm{F}\ensuremath{\uparrow}}$ or ${k}_{\mathrm{F}\ensuremath{\downarrow}}$); the order
(kFa0)2 contribution has been computed (analytically) only using a specific (hard-core type) interaction potential. Here we show that the effective field theory method also allows to easily obtain the order
(kFa0)2 correction to the ground state of the polarized gas in a way applicable to all repulsive interactions.
Applying the previously developed systematic thermal (imaginary time) perturbative expansion to the relevant effective field theory we compute the free energy
F of the diluted gas of (nonrelativistic) spin
1/2 fermions interacting through a spin-independent repulsive two-body potential as a function of the numbers
N+ and
N− of spin up and spin down fermions (i.e. as a function of the system's polarization) and the temperature
T. We give the complete order
(kFa0)3 (
kF is the Fermi wave vector and
a0 is the
s-wave scattering length characterizing the interaction potential) contribution to
F. We also extend the computation beyond a fixed order by resumming to all orders in the parameter
kFa0 the contributions to
F of two infinite sets of Feynman diagrams: the so-called particle-particle rings and the particle-hole rings. We find that including the second one of these two contributions has a dramatic consequence for the transition of the system from the paramagnetic to the ferromagnetic phase (the so called Stoner phase transition): in this approximation the phase transition simply disappears. This result does not contradict the expectation that a transition to the magnetically ordered state should occur in truly repulsive systems. The
p-wave and higher scattering lengths, as well as other parameters chacterizing the interaction potential, are in such systems generally of the same order of magnitude as
a0 and contributions depending on them should be, therefore, also included in
F. Our results may, however, have implications for the search of the itinerant ferromagnetism of cold atomic gases in which large
a0, much larger than all other parameters, is artificially created by exploiting the physics of the Feshbach resonance.
We report the results of the computation of the order
(kFa0)2 correction, where
kF=3π2ρ is the Fermi wave vector and
a0 the
s-wave scattering length of the repulsive interaction, to the ground-state energy of a mixture of oppositely polarized
Na spin
1/2 fermions
a of masses
ma and
Nb spin
1/2 fermions
b of masses
mb (
ρ=N/V,
N=Na+Nb). It is shown that the results of the paper \cite{FraPil} in which the same correction has been computed entirely numerically, using a more traditional approach, can be easily and semianalytically reproduced using the effective field theory technique.
We prove a lower bound on the ground state energy of the dilute spin-polarized Fermi gas capturing the leading correction to the kinetic energy resulting from repulsive interactions. This correction depends on the
p-wave scattering length of the interaction and matches the corresponding upper bound in [J. Funct. Anal. 286.7 (2024), p. 110320].
We consider a dilute homogeneous mixture of bosons and spin-polarized fermions at zero temperature. We first construct the formal scheme for carrying out systematic perturbation theory in terms of single particle Green's functions. We especially focus on the description of the boson-fermion interaction. To do so we need to introduce the renormalized boson-fermion
T matrix, which we determine to second order in the boson-fermion
s-wave scattering length. We also discuss how to incorporate the usual boson-boson
T matrix in mean field approximation to obtain the total ground-state properties of the system. The next-order term beyond mean field stems from the boson-fermion interaction and is proportional to
aBFkF. The total ground-state energy density to this order is the sum of the kinetic energy of the free fermions, the boson-boson mean-field interaction, the usual mean-field contribution to the boson-fermion interaction energy, and the first boson-fermion correction beyond mean field. We also compute the bosonic and the fermionic chemical potentials, the compressibilities, and the modification to the induced fermion-fermion interaction. We discuss the behavior of the total ground-state energy and the importance of the correction beyond mean field for various parameter regimes, in particular considering mixtures of
6Li and
7Li and of
3He and
4He. Moreover, we determine the modification of the induced fermion-fermion interaction due to the effects beyond mean field. We show that there is no effect on the depletion of the Bose condensate to first order in the boson-fermion scattering length
aBF.