Universal contact of strongly interacting fermions at finite temperatures

Details Universal contact of strongly interacting fermions at finite temperatures Universal contact of strongly interacting fermions at finite temperatures

2010-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/1011.3845v2

New J.Phys.13:035007,2011

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

15 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/13/3/035007

The recently discovered universal thermodynamic behaviour of dilute, strongly interacting Fermi gases also implies a universal structure in the many-body pair-correlation function at short distances, as quantified by the contact ${\cal I}$. This quantity is an excellent indicator of the presence of strong correlations in these systems, which provide a highly accessible physical model for other strongly correlated quantum fluids. Here we theoretically calculate the temperature dependence of this universal contact for a Fermi gas in free space and in a harmonic trap. At high temperatures above the Fermi degeneracy temperature, $T\gtrsim T_{F}$, we obtain a reliable non-perturbative quantum virial expansion up to third order. At low temperatures we compare different approximate strong coupling theories. These make different predictions, which need to be tested either by future experiments or advanced quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We conjecture that in the universal unitarity limit, the contact or correlation decreases monotonically with increasing temperature, unless the temperature is significantly lower than the critical temperature, $T\ll T_{c}\sim0.2T_{F}$. We also discuss briefly how to measure the universal contact either in homogeneous or harmonically trapped Fermi gases.

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