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A system of self-gravitating massive fermions is studied in the framework of the general-relativistic Thomas-Fermi model. We study the properties of the free energy functional and its relation to Einstein's field equations. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Neven Bilic , Raoul D. Viollier

We develop a general formalism to determine the statistical equilibrium states of self-gravitating systems in general relativity and complete previous works on the subject. Our results are valid for an arbitrary form of entropy but, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-24 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The Thomas-Fermi model at finite temperature is extended to describe a system of self-gravitating weakly interacting massive fermions in a general-relativistic framework. By cooling a nondegenerate gas of weakly interacting massive fermions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Neven Bilic , Raoul D. Viollier

The Thomas-Fermi model is extended at finite temperature, to describe the gravitational phase transition occurring in massive fermionic systems in a general-relativistic framework. It is shown that, when a nondegenerate fermionic gas (for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Giuseppe Alberti , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

In this paper we study the equilibrium configurations of anisotropic self-gravitating fermions, by extending to general relativity the solutions obtained in a previous paper. This treatment also generalizes to anisotropic systems the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-23 Marco Merafina , Giuseppe Alberti

We investigate superfluidity of the relativistic fermi-gas with gravitational interaction. The excitation spectrum is obtained within the linearized theory. While superfluidity may take place at a definite ratio of the Fermi momentum, rest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Vlasov

Properties of confined mesoscopic systems have been extensively studied numerically over recent years. We discuss an analytical approach to the study of finite rotating fermionic systems in two dimension. We first construct the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Sankalpa Ghosh , M. V. N. Murthy , Subhasis Sinha

In this article we have solved an hypothetical problem related to the stability and gross properties of two dimensional self-gravitating stellar objects using Thomas-Fermi model. The formalism presented here is an extension of the standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-20 Sanchari De , Somenath Chakrabarty

We examine the dynamics of a self--gravitating magnetized electron gas at finite temperature near the collapsing singularity of a Bianchi-I spacetime. Considering a general and appropriate and physically motivated initial conditions, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 I. Delgado Gaspar , A. Perez Martinez , Roberto A. Sussman , A. Ulacia Rey

Employing a local formula for the electron-electron interaction energy, we derive a self-consistent approximation for the total energy of a general $N$-electron system. Our scheme works as a local variant of the Thomas-Fermi approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 E. Rasanen , A. Odriazola , I. Makkonen , A. Harju

We examine the near collapse dynamics of a self-gravitating magnetized electron gas at finite temperature, taken as the source of a Bianchi-I spacetime described by the Kasner metric. The set of Einstein-Maxwell field equations reduces to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 I. Delgado Gaspar , A. Perez Martinez , Roberto A. Sussman , A. Ulacia Rey

We establish a duality between massive fermions coupled to topologically massive gravity (TGM) in $d=3$ space-time dimensions and a purely gravity theory which also will turn out to be a TGM theory but with different parameters: the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Eduardo Fradkin , Enrique F. Moreno , Fidel A. Schaposnik

We address the perturbative renormalization of massive lattice fermions. We derive expressions-valid to all orders in perturbation theory and for all values of the bare fermion mass-for the rest mass, the kinetic mass, and the wave-function…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-19 Bartholomeus P. G. Mertens , Andreas S. Kronfeld , Aida X. El-Khadra

Systems of self-gravitating fermions constitute a topic of great interest in astrophysics, due to the wide field of applications. In this paper, we consider the gravitational equilibrium of spherically symmetric Newtonian models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 Marco Merafina , Giuseppe Alberti

We investigate self-gravitating solutions of the Einstein-Skyrme theory coupled to spin-isospin Dirac fermions and consider the dependence of the spectral flow on the effective gravitational coupling constant and on the Yukawa coupling. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-26 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Jutta Kunz , Yakov Shnir

We consider a large atom with nuclear charge $Z$ described by non-relativistic quantum mechanics with classical or quantized electromagnetic field. We prove that the absolute ground state energy, allowing for minimizing over all possible…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Laszlo Erdos , Jan Philip Solovej

Self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) have been proposed in various astrophysical contexts, including Bose-stars and BEC dark matter halos. These systems are described by a combination of the Gross-Pitaevskii and Poisson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Viktor T. Toth

We consider a quantum system in dimension three composed by a group of $N$ identical fermions, with mass 1/2, interacting via zero-range interaction with a group of $M$ identical fermions of a different type, with mass $m/2$. Exploiting a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-15 Domenico Finco , Alessandro Teta

We calculate the free energy of the quantum uniform electron gas for temperatures from near zero to 100 times the Fermi energy, approaching the classical limit. An extension of the Vashista-Singwi theory to finite temperatures and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Travis Sjostrom , James Dufty

The properties of a fictitious, fermionic, many-body system based on the complex zeros of the Riemann zeta function are studied. The imaginary part of the zeros are interpreted as mean-field single-particle energies, and one fills them up…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Leboeuf , A. G. Monastra , O. Bohigas
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