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SOUND PROPAGATION IN A DILUTE FERMI GAS AT ZERO TEMPERATURE

Kurt Gottfried, L. Pičman

Published Jan 1, 1960• 2 citations
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Abstract

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

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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
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