Density and Correlations in Large One and Three Dimensional Systems of Fermions

The density and correlations are studied for a system of fermions moving in an average harmonic oscillator potential in one and three dimensions when the number of fermions are large. The technique is based on the use of Mehler's formula for the product of two Hermite functions and con-. tour integrations. Wigner transform is then calculated using this technique. It is shown that it becomes a step function when number of fermions become large. By integrating out momenta, an expression for the density of fermions is derived. Two-particle correlation function is studied in detail. Dyson's type of correlations for a system of nucleons is studied. The connection between one dimensional system of fermions and eigenvalues of a random Hermitean Hamiltonian is shown. The Coulomb energy difference of isobars is studied using nucleon density and correlations.     

The conductivity of a two-dimensional electronic system of finite width in the presence of a strong perpendicular magnetic field and a random potential

Starting from the Kubo formula the conductivity tensor of a two-dimensional electronic system in a perpendicular magnetic field is evaluated. It is shown that at zero temperature only the states at the Fermi level contribute. The Hall conductivity of a purely periodic system of finite width is calculated and compared with earlier suggestions by Thouless et al. For a system described by a periodic and a random potential the Hall conductivity is calculated as a function of the electron density. The results emphasize the importance of disorder independent current carrying states for the Quantum Hall effect which extend along the boundaries of the system. The plateaux values of the Hall conductivity are related to the number of these states, and are independent of the existence of extended bulk states below the Fermi energy.     

Reduction Formula for Fermion Loops and Density Correlations of the 1D Fermi Gas

Fermion N-loops with an arbitrary number of density vertices N>d+1 in d spatial dimensions can be expressed as a linear combination of (d+1)-loops with coefficients that are rational functions of external momentum and energy variables. A theorem on symmetrized products then implies that divergences of single loops for low energy and small momenta cancel each other when loops with permuted external variables are summed. We apply these results to the one-dimensional Fermi gas, where an explicit formula for arbitrary N-loops can be derived. The symmetrized N-loop, which describes the dynamical N-point density correlations of the 1D Fermi gas, does not diverge for low energies and small momenta. We derive the precise scaling behavior of the symmetrized N-loop in various important infrared limits.     

The Hubbard model at high dimensions: some exact results and weak coupling theory

Recently it was shown that the theory of systems of correlated fermions on a lattice is greatly simplified in the limit of high dimensions as compared to lattice systems of dimensions 2 or 3 or to isotropic systems. We discuss here the implications of the limit of high dimensions on the single particle propagator of the Hubbard model. It is shown that all the typical Fermi liquid features are retained at high dimensions. Some exact results are obtained for infinite dimension: the shape of the Fermi surface as well as the density of states at the Fermi surface are not renormalized at all by the Coulomb interaction as long as the symmetry of the system is not broken. The self-consistent weak coupling theory is cast into a form which is solved numerically with very little effort.Research performed within the program of the Sonderforschungs-bereich 341 supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft     

Exact analytical results for density profile in Fourier space and elastic scattering function of a rotating harmonically confined ultra-cold Fermi gas

In this paper, the system dealt with consisting of an ultra-cold neutral spin-polarized Fermi gas undergoing rotation (or in the so-called synthetic magnetic field) trapped by an anisotropic harmonic potential in a two and three-dimensional space at zero temperature. Using the so-called Bloch propagator as a tool, we derive exact closed-form expressions for particle density in Fourier space which are valid for an arbitrary particle number confined by a two and three-dimensional rotating anisotropic harmonic trap. Numerical illustrations and discussions are presented. The results can be easily generalized at finite temperatures. The crossover from two-dimensional to the one-dimensional regime is shown to be reflected in the shape of the density distribution in Fourier space at very fast rotating velocity (or at strong synthetic magnetic field). In addition, an exact analytical expression of the elastic scattering factor is found, a quantity of interest used to probe the spatial distribution of the quantum gases.     

Analytical determination of the Fermi velocity in multiwalled carbon nanotubes

The quantized Fermi velocity in a multiwalled carbon nanotube is determined analytically by considering the tube as a one-dimensional quantum electrical conductor such that the above velocity scales with the number of layers of the tube. In fact, an expression for the magnitude of the quantized Fermi velocity is derived in terms of the free-electron mass and tube length. Comparison with previous theoretical results are made. In addition, from the expression for the Fermi velocity, the existence of an associated quantized electric field is discussed.     

Phase structure of self-gravitating systems

The equilibrium properties of classical self-gravitating systems in the grand canonical ensemble are studied by using the correspondence with an euclidean field theory with infrared and ultraviolet cutoffs. It is shown that the system develops a first order phase transition between a low and a high density regime. In addition, due to the long range of the gravitational potential, the system is close to criticality within each phase, with the exponents of mean field theory. The coexistence of a sharp first order transition and critical behavior can explain both the presence of voids in large regions of the universe as well as the self-similar density correlations in terms of self-gravity alone.     

Rotating nuclear matter

Rotating nuclear matter is defined as the system of infinitely many nucleons in a rotating frame neglecting the electrostatic interaction and centrifugal single-nucleon potential. We study the ground state of this system as a function of the densities of neutrons and protons. In the limit where the angular velocity is much smaller than the Fermi energy, the structure of the single-nucleon density corresponds to anisotropic spin distributions at the surfaces of local neutron and proton Fermi spheres. The anisotropy results from the non-central terms in the effective two-nucleon interaction. Contrary to the situation in a system of non-interacting nucleons, the spin asymmetry induced by rotation is a strongly non-linear function of the Fermi momentum. In symmetric nuclear matter at normal density it equals roughly that of the non-interacting system due to mutually cancelling contributions from the spin-orbit and central parts of the effective two-nucleon interaction. The volume contributions to the moments of inertia and single-nucleon Routhian of finite nuclei are calculated, and estimates obtained of certain surface contributions to the moment of inertia.     

Chemical potential and internal energy of the noninteracting Fermi gas in fractional-dimensional space

Chemical potential and internal energy of a noninteracting Fermi gas at low temperature are evaluated using the Sommerfeld method in the fractional-dimensional space. When temperature increases, the chemical potential decreases below the Fermi energy for any dimension equal to 2 and above due to the small entropy, while it increases above the Fermi energy for dimensions below 2 as a result of high entropy. The ranges of validity of the truncated series expansions of these quantities are extended from low to intermediate temperature regime as well as from high to relatively low density regime by using the Padé approximant technique.     

强磁场中超冷费米气体的相对论效应

由单粒子的弱相对论能谱及泊松公式,导出强磁场中费米气体的热力学势函数.在此基础上,运用热力学关系求解低温条件下系统的统计特征量的解析式,分析相对论效应对统计性质的影响机理.研究表明,磁场愈强,相对论效应愈明显.相对论效应引发的单调项与相应的振荡项的振幅相比,对总能,单调项远大于振幅;对化学势及磁矩,单调项与振幅几乎同一量级. 关键词： 强磁场 费米气体 相对论效应     

Condensate fraction of asymmetric three-component Fermi gas

In this paper, we investigate the condensate fraction （CF） of fermionic pairs in the BCS-BEC crossover for three- component Fermi gas with both asymmetric interactions and unequal chemical potentials in two-dimensional free space. By using the functional-path-integral method, we have analytically derived the number densities and bound-state energy, from which the off-diagonal long-range order is analyzed in terms of the asymptotic behavior of the two-body density matrix. The explicit formula of CF is obtained as a function of the bound-state energy and population imbalance. It is demonstrated that the CF spectrum with respect to the bound-state energy can be used to characterize the quantum phase transition between the two kinds of Sarma phases as well as the transition from three-component to two-component superfluid. Moreover we obtain the same analytic formula of CF in the BCS superfluid phase as that of homogeneous Fermi gas with equal chemical potentials.     

Fermi surface changes across the Néel phase boundary of NdB6

We report de Haas-van Alphen measurements in both the antiferromagetic and paramagnetic regimes of NdB6, which are shown to be separated by a second order upper critical field for antiferromagnetic ordering of H_{c} approximately 30 T when the magnetic field is parallel to [001]. The Fermi surface changes across the transition provide an ideal example of a system in which the effect of a one-dimensional magnetic periodic potential on doubling the unit cell (as originally predicted by Slater [Phys. Rev. 82, 538 (1951)]) can be tuned by varying only the magnetic field. The Fermi surface within the paramagnetic phase resembles that observed in other hexaborides such as LaB6 but with additional exchange splitting effects and weak correlations.     

强磁场中相互作用费米气体的相对论稳定性

由单粒子的弱相互作用能谱及泊松公式,导出了强磁场中相互作用费米气体的相对论热力学势函数,求解了系统力学稳定性的判别式,分析了相互作用、磁场及相对论效应对系统稳定性的影响机理.结果表明,强磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的力学稳定性会受到弱相互作用的影响,强磁场对这种影响具有调节作用,而相对论效应对相互作用的影响基本没有调节作用.     

Jastrow correlations and the hard sphere fermi gas

A diagrammatic expansion for the variational energy of a Fermi fluid using state-dependent correlations is described. It is used to obtain the leading order terms (up to (k_Fa)²) in the low density expansion of a hard sphere Fermi gas using both state-dependent and state-independent correlations.     

强磁场中相互作用费米气体的相对论稳定性

由单粒子的弱相互作用能谱及泊松公式,导出了强磁场中相互作用费米气体的相对论热力学势函数,求解了系统力学稳定性的判别式,分析了相互作用、磁场及相对论效应对系统稳定性的影响机理。结果表明,强磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的力学稳定性会受到弱相互作用的影响,强磁场对这种影响具有调节作用,而相对论效应对相互作用的影响基本没有调节作用。     

A review of: “Classical electricity and magnetism”

The article reviews the considerable progress that has been made recently in the experimental determination of the electronic structure of metals and in particular the determination of Fermi surfaces and neighbouring surfaces of constant energy. In Part I the concept of electronic structure is briefly explained and this is followed by a simple analysis of the dynamics of electron motion in a magnetic field. The geometry of the orbit carried out by an electron in real space is related to the geometry of surfaces of constant energies in k-space and it is shown how the dimensions of orbits may be inferred from size-effect and ultrasonic experiments if perfect enough samples are available. Finally the frequency of rotation of the electrons in a magnetic field is related to a differential property of the constant energy surfaces and it is shown how this frequency can be measured in experiments on cyclotron resonance.

Part II starts by considering the effect of purification of the orbital motion and it is shown that this leads to an oscillatory field dependence of the magnetic properties known as the de Haas-van Alphen effect. The conditions for practical observation of this effect are discussed and it is shown that it can provide valuable information about the electronic structure. The frequency of the oscillations gives extreme areas of the Fermi surface, the temperature dependence of amplitude gives information similar to that from cyclotron resonance, while the field dependence of amplitude gives information about scattering time. As an illustration of the experimental methods a fairly detailed account is given of the determination of the Fermi surface of copper and of the variation of electron velocity over this Fermi surface. The article concludes with a brief mention of the more complicated Fermi surfaces of a few polyvalent metals.     

由N-E-V分布及赝势法研究弱磁场中弱相互作用费米子气体的热力学性质

基于低温下量子系统的相关实验多是在体积、能量和粒子数都可变的外场束缚下进行的事实, 由体积、能量和粒子数可变的完全开放系统的统计分布(N-E-V分布)研究了弱磁场中弱相互作用费米系统的热力学性质. 首先求出了一般情况下由费米积分表示的内能和热容的解析表达式. 在此基础上, 又给出了在低温极限条件下内能与热容的解析表达式和数值计算结果, 并将N-E-V分布(粒子数密度变化)的结果与赝势法(粒子数密度不变)的结果进行了比较. 结果表明: N-E-V分布方法的计算结果总是补偿赝势法计算结果的过度偏差. 由N-E-V 分布方法所得结果最特异之处在于: 在低温条件下, 弱磁场中弱相互作用费米系统存在一相变温度t_c, 其正处于费米系统发生玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(BEC)和费米原子形成库珀对的超流状态(BCS)相变及BEC-BCS跨越的温度范围内, 且不随反映弱相互作用大小和特征的散射长度a (a<0引力, a>0斥力)变化, 但随弱磁场的加强而降低, 即弱磁场可调节该相变温度. 磁场为零时, 相变温度最高, 为费米温度的0.184倍.     

弱磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的有限粒子数效应(英文)

由弱磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的配分函数,导出有限粒子数条件下系统的配分函数G(β,N ).在此基础上,运用统计平均方法求解有限粒子数弱相互作用费米气体热力学量的解析表达式,给出各种温度条件下的热力学性质.研究结果表明,有限粒子数效应使各个热力学量都产生了一个修正项,除温度趋于0外,粒子数对化学势的修正项有直接影响,对内能和热容量的修正项并不产生直接影响.并且有限粒子数效应总是降低化学势,从而使化学势的0点向低温漂移,粒子数增大,会削弱这种效应,粒子间的相互排斥会加强这种效应.     

The nuclear response and the imaginary potential for nucleus-nucleus collisions

The Fermi-gas model is used in this paper to study the nucleus-nucleus collision. The field produced by one of the nuclei is considered to act on nucleons in the other nucleus, which is treated as a Fermi gas of radius R. The imaginary part of the (non-local) nucleus-nucleus potential is then computed by evaluating the energy-conserving second-order term in which the intermediate states are particle-hole excitations produced in the Fermi gas. The equivalent local potential, obtained by using the Perey-Saxon method, is compared with phenomenological imaginary potentials. Later it is shown that, in the limit of small range of non-locality, the imaginary potential can be related to the nuclear response function. With this, one can write the nuclear friction coefficient that is used in phenomenological analyses of heavy-ion collisions in terms of the imaginary potential.