Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Statistical Difference in the Normal Phase of the Dipolar Ultracold Gases at Finite Temperatures
Yuki Endo, Takahiko Miyakawa, Tetsuro Nikuni
Abstract
We study the equilibrium properties of dipolar Bose and Fermi gases at finite temperatures. We have recently developed a variational ansatz for the phase-space distribution function of a dipolar Fermi gas at finite temperatures. We extend the variational formalism to a Bose gas and discuss the effect of dipolar interactions with different statistics on thermal equilibrium, with particular emphasis on deformation in momentum space. We examine the stability of the system by varying the temperature, trap aspect ratio, and dipole moment. In addition, we discuss how deformation in both real and momentum spaces can be observed in the high-temperature regime, which is relevant for the current experiments at JILA [Ni et al. : Science 322 (2008) 231] and at the University of Tokyo [Aikawa et al. : New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 055035].