Taking into account the effect of the generalized Gor'kov and Melik—Barkhudarov (GMB) approximation, we calculate the radio-frequency spectra of balanced and homogeneous ultracold Fermi gases within the framework of the non-self-consistent T-matrix approximation at unitarity in the normal phase. The corresponding equations are numerically calculated on the real frequency axis directly. It is found that our results agree well with the experimental result of the radio-frequency spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 140403].
We present two exact results for singular features in the radio frequency intensity
I(ω) for ultracold Fermi gases. First, in the absence of final state interactions,
I(ω) has a universal high frequency tail $ Cω^{-3/2}$ for \emph{all} many-body states, where
C is Tan's contact. Second, in a \emph{normal} Fermi liquid at T=0,
I(ω) has a jump discontinuity of
Z/(1−m/m∗), where
Z is the quasiparticle weight and
m∗/m the mass renormalization. We then describe various approximations for
I(ω) in polarized normal gases. We show why an approximation that is exact in the $n_\dn=0$ limit, fails qualitatively for $n_{\dn} > 0$: there is no universal tail and sum rules are violated. The simple ladder approximation is qualitatively correct for very small $n_{\dn}$, but not quantitatively.
In this paper, the momentum-resolved radio-frequency spectra of a unitary Fermi gas in the normal phase are presented and analyzed on the basis of the framework of the non-self-consistent T-matrix approximation with the extended Gorkov and Melik-Barkhudarov (GMB) approximation. We report the calculated occupied spectral intensity and energy distribution curves for different temperatures above T c . Our results indicate the existence of pseudogap phenomenon which would be helpful for further understanding of the pseudogap in high-temperature superconductivity.
We measure radio frequency (rf) spectra of the homogeneous unitary Fermi gas at temperatures ranging from the Boltzmann regime through quantum degeneracy and across the superfluid transition. For all temperatures, a single spectral peak is observed. Its position smoothly evolves from the bare atomic resonance in the Boltzmann regime to a frequency corresponding to nearly one Fermi energy at the lowest temperatures. At high temperatures, the peak width reflects the scattering rate of the atoms, while at low temperatures, the width is set by the size of fermion pairs. Above the superfluid transition, and approaching the quantum critical regime, the width increases linearly with temperature, indicating non-Fermi-liquid behavior. From the wings of the rf spectra, we obtain the contact, quantifying the strength of short-range pair correlations. We find that the contact rapidly increases as the gas is cooled below the superfluid transition.