We study the quantum lattice gas model in one dimension introduced by Lesanovsky [Lesanovsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105301 (2012)], who showed that the exact ground state and a couple of excited states can be obtained analytically. The Hamiltonian of the model depends solely on the parameter
z, the meaning of which is a fugacity in the corresponding classical lattice gas model. For small
z (
0<z<1), we prove that there is an energy gap between the ground state and the excited states by applying Knabe's method [Knabe, J. Stat. Phys. 52, 627 (1988)].
We study the ground-state of a Fermi gas with short range attrative interactions in one or two dimensions. N fermions are placed in a confining potential, and interact with each other through a negative potential, whose range is larger than the typical distance between particles. We show the convergence of the ground state energy of the Hamiltonian to a Thomas-Fermi energy in the large N limit. Furthermore, we prove convergence of the ground states, in the sense of their Husimi functions. These results extend to the case of a repulsive interaction of positive Fourier transform.