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The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Collective Coordinate Description of Anisotropically Trapped Degenerate Fermi Gases

Seth T. Rittenhouse, M. J. Cavagnero, Chris H. Greene

Published Nov 10, 2009• 2 citations
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Abstract

The solution of the many-body Schrödinger equation using an adiabatic treatment of the hyperradius is generalized to treat two components of a hyperspherical vector adiabatically. This treatment has advantages in certain physical situations, such as the description of a degenerate Fermi gas or Bose-Einstein condensate in an anisotropic trapping potential. A first application to the zero-temperature anisotropic Fermi gas is compared with predictions of the Hartree-Fock method.

DOI
10.1021/jp9051006

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