Trapped unitary two-component Fermi gases with up to ten particles

ORAL

Abstract

The properties of two-component Fermi gases with zero-range interactions are universal. We use an explicitly correlated Gaussian basis set expansion approach to investigate small equal-mass two-component Fermi gases under spherically symmetric external harmonic confinement. At unitarity, we determine the ground state energy for systems with up to ten particles interacting through finite-range two-body potentials for both even and odd number of particles. We extrapolate the energies to the zero-range limit using a novel scheme that removes the linear and quadratic dependence of the ground state energies on the two-body range. Our extrapolated zero-range energies are compared with results from the literature. We also calculate structural properties and the two-body Tan contact.

*We acknowledge support by the NSF through Grant No. PHY-1205443. This work used the XSEDE, which is supported by NSF Grant No. ACI-1053575.

Authors

  • X.Y. Yin

    • Washington State University
  • D. Blume

    • Washington State University