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We study the thermodynamical properties of Fermi vapors confined in a harmonic external potential. In the case of the ideal Fermi gas, we compare exact density profiles with their semiclassical approximation in the conditions of recent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Salasnich , B. Pozzi , A. Parola , L. Reatto

We study the properties of a spin-polarized Fermi gas in a harmonic trap, using the semiclassical (Thomas-Fermi) approximation. Universal forms for the spatial and momentum distributions are calculated, and the results compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. A. Butts , D. S. Rokhsar

We study normal state properties of an interacting Fermi gas in an isotropic harmonic trap of arbitrary dimensions. We exactly calculate the first-order perturbation terms in the ground state energy and chemical potential, and obtain simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroyuki Yoshimoto , Susumu Kurihara

We investigate the stability and the free expansion of a trapped dipolar Fermi gas. We show that stabilizing the system relying on tuning the trap geometry is generally inefficient. We further show that the expanded density profile always…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 L. He , J. -N. Zhang , Yunbo Zhang , S. Yi

I develop simple thermodynamic relations for a collection of noninteracting classical particles confined in a harmonic trap. The volume of such a trap is not a good thermodynamic variable, so conventional expressions of the first law of…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Ligare

Dynamics of strongly interacting trapped dilute Fermi gases is investigated at zero temperature. As an example of application we consider the expansion of the cloud of fermions initially confined in an anisotropic harmonic trap, and study…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yeong E. Kim , Alexander L. Zubarev

We consider N atoms trapped in an isotropic harmonic potential, with s-wave interactions of infinite scattering length. In the zero-range limit, we obtain several exact analytical results: mapping between the trapped problem and the…

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For isotropic confining Ioffe-Pritchard or TOP potentials, a valence fermion trapped with a closed core of other fermions can be described by an analytical effective one-particle model with a physical eigenspectrum. Related constructions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Alan Kostelecky , Neil Russell

We analyze the dynamics of two atoms with a short-ranged pair interaction in a one-dimensional harmonic trap with time-dependent frequency. Our analysis is focused on two representative cases: (i) a sudden change of the trapping frequency…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-15 M. Ebert , A. Volosniev , H. -W. Hammer

Starting from the Boltzmann equation we calculate the frequency and the damping of the monopole and quadrupole oscillations of a classical gas confined in an harmonic potential. The collisional term is treated in the relaxation time…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Guery-Odelin , F. Zambelli , J. Dalibard , S. Stringari

We develop an extension of the well-known BCS-theory to systems with trapped fermions. The theory fully includes the quantized energy levels in the trap. The key ingredient is to model the attractive interaction between two atoms by a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Bruun , Y. Castin , R. Dum , K. Burnett

The properties of a balanced two-component Fermi gas in a one-dimensional harmonic trap are studied by means of the coupled cluster method. For few fermions we recover the results of exact diagonalization, yet with this method we are able…

Cold-atom experiments which measure Fermi-gas properties near unitarity confine fermionic atoms to a region of space using trapping potentials of various shapes. The presence of a trapping potential introduces a new characteristic physical…

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We exploit and clarify the use of random matrix theory for the calculation of the entanglement entropy of free Fermi gases. We apply this method to obtain analytic predictions for Renyi entanglement entropies of a one-dimensional gas…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-08 Pasquale Calabrese , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar

We present a simple one-dimensional trapping model prompted by the problem of ion current across biological membranes. The trap is modeled mimicking the ionic channel membrane behaviour. Such voltage-sensitive channels are open or closed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alejandro D. Sanchez , Jorge A. Revelli , Horacio S. Wio

We present a theoretical study of the collective excitations of a trapped imbalanced fermion gas at unitarity, when the system consists of a superfluid core and a normal outer shell. We formulate the relevant boundary conditions and treat…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-08 Achilleas Lazarides , Bert Van Schaeybroeck

We discuss the model of a $D$-dimensional confined electron gas in which the particles are trapped by a harmonic potential. In particular, we study the non-interacting kinetic and exchange energies of finite-size inhomogeneous systems, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Pierre-François Loos , Peter M. W. Gill

The unitary Fermi gas serves as a tunable realization of a strongly coupled CFT, making it a powerful system for probing universal quantum many-body phenomena. Precise measurement of its properties remains experimentally challenging:…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-27 Adèle Le Borgne

We study the thermodynamical properties of a mesoscopic Fermi gas in view of recent possibilities to trap ultracold atoms in a harmonic potential. We focus on the effects of shell closure for finite small atom numbers. The dependence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Schneider , H. Wallis