Higher-order perturbation-theory corrections to the superfluid transition temperature in a weakly nonideal Fermi gas with repulsion are determined. This involves calculating the contribution of third-and fourth-order diagrams in terms of the gas parameter ap F to the effective interaction which determines the super-fluid transition temperature and also allowing for effects associated with retardation and renormalization of the polar part of the Green’s function. The expressions obtained provide evidence in support of attraction in the effective interaction in the second, third, and fourth orders of perturbation theory. It is shown that the critical temperature is mainly determined by second-and third-order terms of perturbation theory. Calculations are made of the superfluid transition temperature for a gas comprising neutral Fermi particles in a magnetic field. The limits of validity of the theory are analyzed and the possibility of applying the results to dilute solutions of 3 He in 4 He and neutral-particle Fermi gases in magnetic traps is discussed.
Higher-order perturbation-theory corrections to the superfluid transition temperature in a weakly nonideal Fermi gas with repulsion are determined. This involves calculating the contribution of third-and fourth-order diagrams in terms of the gas parameter ap F to the effective interaction which determines the super-fluid transition temperature and also allowing for effects associated with retardation and renormalization of the polar part of the Green’s function. The expressions obtained provide evidence in support of attraction in the effective interaction in the second, third, and fourth orders of perturbation theory. It is shown that the critical temperature is mainly determined by second-and third-order terms of perturbation theory. Calculations are made of the superfluid transition temperature for a gas comprising neutral Fermi particles in a magnetic field. The limits of validity of the theory are analyzed and the possibility of applying the results to dilute solutions of 3 He in 4 He and neutral-particle Fermi gases in magnetic traps is discussed.
Itinerant ferromagnetism in dilute Fermi gases is predicted to emerge at values of the gas parameter where second-order perturbation theory is not accurate enough to properly describe the system. We have revisited perturbation theory for SU(N) fermions and derived its generalization up to third order both in terms of the gas parameter and the polarization. Our results agree satisfactorily with quantum Monte Carlo results for hard-sphere and soft-sphere potentials for S = 1/2 S = 1 / 2 . Although the nature of the phase transition depends on the interaction potential, we find that for a hard-sphere potential a phase transition is guaranteed to occur. While for S= 1/2 S = 1 / 2 we observe a quasi-continuous transition, for spins 3/2 3 / 2 and 5/2 5 / 2 , a first-order phase transition is found. For larger spins, a double transition (combination of continuous and discontinuous) occurs. The critical density reduces drastically when the spin increases, making the phase transition more accessible to experiments with ultracold dilute Fermi gases. Estimations for Fermi gases of Yb and Sr with spin 5/2 5 / 2 and 9/2 9 / 2 , respectively, are reported.
It is generally believed that a dilute spin-1/2 Fermi gas with repulsive interactions can undergo a ferromagnetic phase transition to a spin-polarized state at a critical gas parameter (kFa)c. The perturbation theory fails to predict quantitatively the ferromagnetic transition since (kFa)c is not small. In this Letter we study the non-perturbative effects on the ferromagnetic transition by summing the particle-particle ladder diagrams to all orders in the gas parameter. To the leading order of the effective range expansion, such a resummation predicts a second order ferromagnetic phase transition. The predicted critical gas parameter (kFa)c = 0.858 is in good agreement with recent Quantum Monte Carlo result (kFa)c = 0.86 for a nearly zero-range potential [S. Pilati, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030405 (2010)].
Based on the Bogoliubov non-ideal gas model, we discuss the energy spectrum and phase transition of the superfluid Fermi gas of atoms with a weak attractive interaction on the canonical noncommutative space.Because the interaction of a BCS-type superfluid Fermi gas originates from a pair of Fermionic quasi-particles with opposite momenta and spins, the Hamiltonian of the Fermi gas on the noncommutative space can be described in terms of the ordinary creation and annihilation operators related to the commutative space, while the noncommutative effect appears only in the coefficients of the interacting Hamiltonian.As a result, we can rigorously solve the energy spectrum of the Fermi gas on the noncommutative space exactly following the way adopted on the commutative space without the use of perturbation theory.In particular, different from the previous results on the noncommutative degenerate electron gas and superconductor where only the first order corrections of the ground state energy level and energy gap were derived, we obtain the nonperturbative energy spectrum for the noncommutative superfluid Fermi gas, and find that each energy level contains a corrected factor of cosine function of noncommutative parameters.In addition, our result shows that the energy gap becomes narrow and the critical temperature of phase transition from a superfluid state to an ordinary fluid state decreases when compared with that in the commutative case.
The critical temperature of a superfluid phase transition in a Fermi gas with repulsive interaction is found. The influence of a magnetic field on the transition is analyzed. The estimates for the critical temperature for a trapped gas of 6Li atoms and 3He--4He mixtures are presented.
In this paper the analytical expression of free energy expressed by small parameter r of a weakly interacting Fermi gas trapped in weak magnetic field is derived by using `the maximum approximation' method and the ensemble theory. Based on the derived expression, the exact instability conditions of a weakly interacting Fermi gas trapped in weak magnetic field at both high and low temperatures are given. From the instability conditions we get the following two results. (1) At the whole low-temperature extent, whether the interactions are repulsive or attractive with (α n +4ε F /3) ( n and ε F denote the particle-number density and the Fermi energy respectively, α = 4π a ℏ 2 / m , and a is s-wave scattering length) positive, there is a lower-limit magnetic field of instability; in addition, there is an upper-limit magnetic field for the system of attractive interactions with (α n +4ε F /3) negative. (2) At the whole high-temperature extent, the system with repulsive interactions is always stable, but for the system with attractive interactions, the greater the scattering length of attractive interactions | a | is, the stronger the magnetic field is and the larger the particle-number density is, the bigger the possibility of instability in the system will be.
Strongly interacting, dilute Fermi gases exhibit a scale-invariant, universal thermodynamic behavior. This is notoriously difficult to understand theoretically because of the absence of a small interaction parameter. Here, we present a systematic comparison of theoretical predictions from different quantum many-body theories with recent experimental data of Nascimbne et al (2010 Nature 463 1057). Our comparisons have no adjustable parameters, either theoretically or experimentally. All the model approximations seem to fluctuate rather than converge on the experimental data. It turns out that a simple Gaussian pair fluctuation theory gives the best quantitative agreement, except at the critical superfluid transition region. In the normal state, we also calculate the equation of state by using a quantum cluster expansion theory and explore in detail its applicability to low temperatures. Using the accurate experimental result for the thermodynamic function S ( T ), we determine the temperature T of a trapped Fermi gas at unitarity as a function of a non-interacting temperature T i , which can be obtained by an adiabatic sweep to the free gas limit. By analyzing the recent experimental data, we find a characteristic temperature ( T / T F ) 0 =0.19±0.02 or ( T i / T F ) 0 =0.16±0.02 in a harmonic trap, below which there are deviations from normal Fermi-liquid-like behavior that may be attributed to pairing effects. Here, T F is the Fermi temperature for a trapped ideal, non-interacting Fermi gas. Our thorough comparison may shed light on the further theoretical development of strongly interacting fermions.