The long-wavelength, low-frequency "collisionless" collective oscillations of a superfluid Fermi liquid are studied throughout the region
0<T<Tc with the help of a field-theoretic formalism developed in a previous paper. It is found that any collective mode (other than the density fluctuation) that is possible in the normal phase persists below
Tc as an oscillation of the normal component, but disappears at some finite temperature which in general depends on the Landau interaction parameters
F0,
F1,
Z0, etc. The behavior of the density-fluctuation mode depends critically on
F0, if the latter is negative, there is a well-defined collective oscillation only for $T\ensuremath{\ll}{T}_{c}$, while if it is small and positive, the oscillation is well defined for $T\ensuremath{\ll}{T}_{c}$ and $T\ensuremath{-}{T}_{c}\ensuremath{\ll}{T}_{c}$ but not in the intermediate region. If
F0 is large and positive, the density-fluctuation collective mode exists throughout the whole region
0<T<Tc and its velocity is approximately temperature-independent.
We derive the quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE) by using generalized Landau-interaction parameters, obtained through the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. This is a generalization of the usual QBE formalism to non-Fermi liquid (NFL) systems, which do not have well-defined quasiparticles. We apply this framework to a controlled low-energy effective field theory for the Ising-nematic quantum critical point, in order to find the collective excitations of the critical Fermi surface in the collisionless regime. We also compute the nature of the dispersion after the addition of weak Coulomb interactions. The zero angular momentum longitudinal vibrations of the Fermi surface show a linear-in-wavenumber dispersion, which corresponds to the zero sound of Landau's Fermi liquid theory. The Coulomb interaction modifies it to a plasmon mode in the long-wavelength limit, which disperses as the square-root of the wavenumber. Remarkably, our results show that the zero sound and plasmon modes exhibit the same behaviour as in a Fermi liquid, although an NFL is fundamentally different from the former.
Landau showed that a nonideal Fermi gas at zero temperature can sustain collective oscillations of the acoustical type (zeroth sound). The altenuation of zeroth sound in a dilute Fermi gas with repulive intereacitions was considered. The problem was formulted interms of the Green function G which describes the paropation of density fluctuations through the system. The simplest approximation of G led to Landau's dispersion law which wae analyzed in some detail. The contribution of the phonons' zero point oscillations to the ground- state energy was estimated and found to lead to a term which has an essential singuarty at the origin of the coupling constant plane. The energy and width of the phonon are given by the poles in the spectral representation of G, and the location of these poles was determined from the Fredholm solution of an apparoximate integral equation satisfied by G. In this way it is showa that ths width, divided by the displacement of the collective state above the single- particle continunna of the free gas, vanishes linearly in the long wavelength limit. It is also shows that in the limit of extreme dilution the correct damping; can be obtained by merely taking the finite lifetimemore » of single-particles excitations into account and ignoring the dissipative effects of the noninstantaneous interactions betweein the particles in the medium. Finally, it is alao argued that the Fredholm method is the natural tool for discussing many problems in the theory of collective motion. (auth)« less
We use kinetic-theory methods to analyze Landau Fermi-liquid theory, and in particular to investigate the number and nature of modes in Fermi liquids that are soft in the long-wavelength limit, both in the hydrodynamic and the collisionless regimes. In the hydrodynamic regime we show that Fermi-liquid theory is consistent with Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics at all temperatures, as expected. The soft modes are the ones familiar from classical hydrodynamics that are controlled by the five conservation laws; namely, two first-sound modes, two shear diffusion modes, and one heat diffusion mode. These modes have a particle-like spectrum and are soft, or scale invariant, at all temperatures. In the collisionless regime we show that the entire single-particle distribution function is soft with a continuous part of the spectrum. This continuous soft mode, which is well known but often not emphasized, has important physical consequences, e.g., for certain quantum phase transitions. In addition, there are the well-known soft zero-sound excitations that describe angular fluctuations of the Fermi surface; their spectra are particle-like. They are unrelated to conservation laws, acquire a mass at any nonzero temperature, and their number depends on the strength of the quasiparticle interaction. We also discuss the fates of these two families of soft modes as the temperature changes. With increasing temperature the size of the collisionless regime shrinks, the damping of the modes grows, and eventually all of the collisionless modes become overdamped. In their stead the five hydrodynamic modes appear in the hydrodynamic regime at asymptotically low frequencies. The two families of soft modes are unrelated and have very different physical origins. In charged Fermi liquids the first-sound modes in the hydrodynamic regime and the $\ensuremath{\ell}=0$ zero-sound modes in the collisionless regime get replaced by plasmons, all other modes remain soft.
Landau’s Fermi-liquid (FL) theory has been successful at the phenomenological description of the normal phase of many different Fermi systems. Using a dilute atomic Fermi fluid with tunable interactions, we investigate the microscopic basis of Landau’s theory with a system describable from first principles. We study transport properties of an interacting Fermi gas by measuring its density response to a periodic external perturbation. In an ideal Fermi gas, we measure for the first time the celebrated Lindhard function. As the system is brought from the collisionless to the hydrodynamic regime, we observe the emergence of sound and find that the experimental observations are quantitatively understood with a first-principle transport equation for the FL. When the system is more strongly interacting, we find deviations from such predictions. Finally, we measure the momentum-space shape of the quasiparticle excitations and see how it evolves from the collisionless to the collisional regime. Our study establishes this system as a clean platform for studying Landau’s theory of the FL and paves the way for extending the theory to more exotic conditions, such as nonlinear dynamics and FLs with strong correlations in versatile settings.