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A Universal Energy Functional for Trapped Fermi Gases with Large Scattering Length

Quantum Gases 2015-05-28 v1

Abstract

Yoram Alhassid conjectured that the total energy of a harmonically trapped two-component Fermi gas with large scattering length is a linear functional of the occupation probabilities of single-particle energy eigenstates. We confirm his conjecture and derive the functional explicitly. We show that the functional applies to ALL smooth potentials having a minimum, not just harmonic traps. We also calculate the occupation probabilities of high energy states.

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@article{arxiv.1107.1556,
  title  = {A Universal Energy Functional for Trapped Fermi Gases with Large Scattering Length},
  author = {Shina Tan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.1556},
  year   = {2015}
}

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