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Non-Analytic Crossover Behavior of SU($\mathcal{N}_c$) Fermi Liquid

Quantum Gases 2018-07-04 v1

Abstract

We consider the thermodynamic potential of a dilute Fermi gas with a contact interaction, at both finite temperature TT and non-zero effective magnetic fields H\mathbf{H}, and derive the equation of state analytically using second order perturbation theory. Special attention is paid to the non-analytic dependence of Ω\Omega on temperature TT and (effective) magnetic field H\mathbf{H}, which exhibits a crossover behavior as the ratio of the two is continuously varied. This non-analyticity is due to the particle-hole pair excitation being always gapless and long-ranged. The non-analytic crossover found in this paper can therefore be understood as an analog of the Ginzberg-Landau critical scaling, albeit only at the sub-leading order. We extend our results to an Nc\mathcal{N}_c- component Fermi gas with an SU(Nc)\mathrm{SU}(\mathcal{N}_c)-symmetric interaction, and point out possible enhancement of the crossover behavior by a large Nc\mathcal{N}_c.

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@article{arxiv.1804.06251,
  title  = {Non-Analytic Crossover Behavior of SU($\mathcal{N}_c$) Fermi Liquid},
  author = {Pye Ton How and S. -K. Yip},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06251},
  year   = {2018}
}