F = µ(n, 0) (9.4) are occupied, and all those above are empty. In momentum space the occupied states lie within the Fermi sphere of radius pF , as illustrated in Fig. 9.1. Such a condition is called “quantum degeneracy”.
We consider a system of fermions with mass m and model repulsive interaction U(q) = g/\sqrt{q^2 + q_0^2}, where q is the momentum transfer, q_0 the screening constant, and g > 0 the coupling constant. It is shown that at g > g_cr > 3π^2/m the system ground state is changed from fully occupied Fermi sphere to multiconnected Fermi sphere (MFS), consisting in N fully occupied spherical layers (icebergs) separated by empty spacers. An effective description is developed for such states at N >> 1, showing their tendency at N \to \infty to the Fermi condensate (FC) state known for the model U(q) = g/q [Khodel, Shaginyan, JETP Lett., 51, 553, 1990]. At finite temperatures, a crossover is predicted from the Fermi liquid behavior of MFS with effective mass m^* \sim m N/ln(N) to non-Fermi-liquid behavior with m^* \propto 1/T at T > T^* \sim T_F ln(N)/N.
We study theoretically the deformation of the Fermi surface (FS) of a three-dimensional gas of Rydberg-dressed 6Li atoms. The laser dressing to high-lying Rydberg D states results in angle-dependent soft-core-shaped interactions whose anisotropy is described by multiple spherical harmonics. We show that this can drastically modify the shape of the FS and that its deformation depends on the interplay between the Fermi momentum kF and the reciprocal momentum k corresponding to the characteristic soft-core radius of the dressing-induced potential. When kF<k, the dressed interaction stretches a spherical FS into an ellipsoid. When ${k}_{F}\ensuremath{\gtrsim}\overline{k}$, complex deformations are encountered which exhibit multipolar characteristics. We analyze the formation of Cooper pairs around the deformed FS and show that they occupy large orbital angular momentum states (p,f, and h wave) coherently. Our study demonstrates that Rydberg dressing to high angular momentum states may pave a route toward the investigation of unconventional Fermi gases and multiwave superconductivity.