Vrial expansion for a strongly correlated Fermi system and its application to ultracold atomic Fermi gases

被引:101
作者
Liu, Xia-Ji [1 ]
机构
[1] Swinburne Univ Technol, Ctr Atom Opt & Ultrafast Spect, ARC Ctr Excellence Quantum Atom Opt, Melbourne, Vic 3122, Australia
来源
PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS | 2013年 / 524卷 / 02期
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
Ultracold atomic Fermi gas; Virial expansion; Feshbach resonance; Thermodynamics; Virial coefficient; EQUATION-OF-STATE; BCS-BEC CROSSOVER; LONG-RANGE ORDER; UNIVERSAL THERMODYNAMICS; QUANTUM-THEORY; TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSITION; PHYSICS; SUPERFLUIDITY;
D O I
10.1016/j.physrep.2012.10.004
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A strongly correlated Fermi system plays a fundamental role in very different areas of physics, from neutron stars, quark-gluon plasmas, to high temperature superconductors. Despite the broad applicability, it is notoriously difficult to be understood theoretically because of the absence of a small interaction parameter. Recent achievements of ultracold trapped Fermi atoms near a Feshbach resonance have ushered in enormous changes. The unprecedented control of interaction, geometry and purity in these novel systems has led to many exciting experimental results, which are to be urgently understood at both low and finite temperatures. Here we review the latest developments of virial expansion for a strongly correlated Fermi gas and their applications on ultracold trapped Fermi atoms. We show remarkable, quantitative agreements between virial predictions and various recent experimental measurements at about the Fermi degenerate temperature. For equations of state, we discuss a practical way of determining high-order virial coefficients and use it to calculate accurately the long-sought third-order virial coefficient, which is now verified firmly in experiments at ENS and MIT. We discuss also virial expansion of a new many-body parameter Tan's contact. We then turn to less widely discussed issues of dynamical properties. For dynamic structure factors, the virial prediction agrees well with the measurement at the Swinburne University of Technology. For single-particle spectral functions, we show that the expansion up to the second order accounts for the main feature of momentum-resolved rf-spectroscopy for a resonantly interacting Fermi gas, as recently reported by JILA. In the near future, more practical applications with virial expansion are possible, owing to the ever-growing power in computation. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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