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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 050403 (2006) [4 pages]

ϵ Expansion for a Fermi Gas at Infinite Scattering Length

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Yusuke Nishida1,2 and Dam Thanh Son2
1Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
2Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1550, USA

Received 2 May 2006; published 4 August 2006

We show that there exists a systematic expansion around four spatial dimensions for Fermi gas in the unitarity regime. We perform the calculations to leading and next-to-leading orders in the expansion over ϵ=4-d, where d is the dimensionality of space. We find the ratio of chemical potential and Fermi energy to be μ/εF=1/2ϵ3/2+1/16ϵ5/2ln⁡ϵ-0.0246ϵ5/2+⋯ and the ratio of the gap in the fermion quasiparticle spectrum and the chemical potential to be Δ/μ=2ϵ-1-0.691+⋯. The minimum of the fermion dispersion curve is located at |p|=(2mε0)1/2, where ε0/μ=2+O(ϵ). Extrapolation to d=3 gives results consistent with Monte Carlo simulations.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.050403
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.050403
PACS:
05.30.Fk, 03.75.Ss