Impurity in a zero-temperature three-dimensional Fermi gas
Quantum Gases
2024-09-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We consider an impurity in a sea of zero-temperature fermions uniformly distributed throughout the space. The impurity scatters on fermions. On average, the momentum of impurity decreases with time as in dimensions, and the momentum distribution acquires a scaling form in the long time limit. We solve the Lorentz-Boltzmann equation for the scaled momentum distribution of the impurity in three dimensions. The solution is a combination of confluent hypergeometric functions. In two spatial dimensions, the Lorentz-Boltzmann equation is analytically intractable, so we merely extract a few exact predictions about asymptotic behaviors when the scaled momentum of the impurity is small or large.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2403.05057,
title = {Impurity in a zero-temperature three-dimensional Fermi gas},
author = {P. L. Krapivsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05057},
year = {2024}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure