Unitary fermi gas in the 〓 expansion

英司 仲野

Joaquín E. Drut

Shimpei Endo

Virial expansion is widely used in cold atoms to analyze high temperature strongly correlated many-body systems. As the n-th order virial expansion coefficient can be accurately obtained by exactly solving up to n-body problems, the virial expansion offers a few-body approach to study strongly correlated many-body problems. In particular, the virial expansion has successfully been applied to unitary Fermi gas. We review recent progress of the virial expansion studies in the unitary Fermi gas, in particular the fourth order virial coefficient.

Yusuke Nishida

We construct systematic expansions around four and two spatial dimensions for a Fermi gas near the unitarity limit. Near four spatial dimensions such a Fermi gas can be understood as a weakly-interacting system of fermionic and bosonic degrees of freedom. To the leading and next-to-leading orders in the expansion over ε=4-d, with d being the dimensionality of space, we determine the thermodynamic functions, the fermion quasiparticle spectrum, the critical polarizations, and the critical temperature as functions of the binding energy of the two-body state. We also show that the unitary Fermi gas near two spatial dimensions reduces to a weakly-interacting Fermi gas and calculate the thermodynamic functions and the fermion quasiparticle spectrum in the expansion over \barε=d-2. We discuss the matching of the two systematic expansions around four and two spatial dimensions in order to extract physical observables at d=3. We find good agreement of the results with those from recent Monte Carlo simulations.

John E. Thomas

Joseph Carlson