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Ultracold spin-balanced fermionic quantum liquids with renormalized $P$-wave interactions

Quantum Gases 2022-12-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider a spin-balanced degenerate gas of spin-1/2 fermions whose dynamics is governed by low-energy PP-wave interactions, characterized by the scattering volume a1a_1 and effective momentum r1r_1. The energy per particle Eˉ\bar{\cal{E}} in the many-body system is calculated by resumming the ladder diagrams comprising both particle-particle and hole-hole intermediate states, following the novel advances recently developed by us in Ann.Phys. 437,168741(2022). This allows to obtain a renormalized result for Eˉ\bar{\cal{E}} within generic cutoff regularization schemes, with Eˉ\bar{\cal{E}} directly expressed in terms of the scattering parameters a1a_1 and r1r_1, once the cut off is sent to infinity. The whole set of possible values of a1a_1 and r1r_1 is explored for the first time in the literature looking for minima in the energy per particle with Eˉ\bar{\cal{E}} given as described. They are actually found, but a further inspection reveals that the associated scattering parameters give rise to resonance poles in the complex momentum-plane with positive imaginary part, which is at odds with the Hermiticity of the Hamiltonian. We also determine that these conflictive poles, with a pole-position momentum that is smaller in absolute value than the Fermi momentum of the system, clearly impact the calculation of Eˉ\bar{\cal{E}}. As a result, we conclude that unpolarized spin-1/2 fermionic normal matter interacting in PP-wave is not stable. We also study three universal parameters around the unitary limit. Finally, the whole set of values for the parameters a1a_1, r1r_1 is characterized according to whether they give rise to unallowed poles and, if so, by attending to their pole positions relative to the Fermi momentum of the system explored.

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@article{arxiv.2107.08051,
  title  = {Ultracold spin-balanced fermionic quantum liquids with renormalized $P$-wave interactions},
  author = {J. M. Alarcón and J. A. Oller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08051},
  year   = {2022}
}

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