Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2010-01-03
Phys. Rev. C 81, 045806 (2010)
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
v2: 11 pages, 4 figures, matches published version.
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.81.045806
We compute the finite temperature density response function of nonrelativistic cold fermions with an isotropic condensate. The pair-breaking contribution to the response function is evaluated in the limit of small three-momentum transfers q within an effective theory which exploits series expansion in powers of small q/p_F, where p_F is the Fermi momentum. The leading order O(q^2) contribution is universal and depends only on two fundamental scales, the Fermi energy and the pairing gap. The particle-hole Landau Fermi-liquid interaction contributes first at the next-to-leading-order O(q^4). The scattering contribution to the polarization tensor is nonperturbative (in the above sense) and is evaluated numerically. The spectral functions of density fluctuations are constructed and the relevance of the q^2 scaling for the pair-breaking neutrino emission from neutron stars is discussed.
Keller Jochen
Sedrakian Armen
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