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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 t1/(d+1)t^{-1/(d+1)} in dd 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.

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@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

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