Rotating Fermi gases in an anharmonic trap

Details Rotating Fermi gases in an anharmonic trap Rotating Fermi gases in an anharmonic trap

2008-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/0810.4983v2

European Physical Journal D 54, 667-682 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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Motivated by recent experiments on rotating Bose-Einstein condensates, we investigate a rotating, polarized Fermi gas trapped in an anharmonic potential. We apply a semiclassical expansion of the density of states in order to determine how the thermodynamic properties depend on the rotation frequency. The accuracy of the semiclassical approximation is tested and shown to be sufficient for describing typical experiments. At zero temperature, rotating the gas above a given frequency $\Omega_{\rm DO}$ leads to a `donut'-shaped cloud which is analogous to the hole found in two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates. The free expansion of the gas after suddenly turning off the trap is considered and characterized by the time and rotation frequency dependence of the aspect ratio. Temperature effects are also taken into account and both low- and high-temperature expansions are presented for the relevant thermodynamical quantities. In the high-temperature regime a virial theorem approach is used to study the delicate interplay between rotation and anharmonicity.

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