Universal relations for a spin-polarized Fermi gas in two dimensions

• Published in: Journal of physics. A, Mathematical and theoretical Mathematical and theoretical, 2019-06, Vol.52 (24), p.245302
• Main Author: Peng, Shi-Guo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Fermi gases; Tan's contact theory; wave interactions
• ISSN: 1751-8113; 1751-8121
• DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ab196a

We derive the full set of universal relations for spin-polarized Fermi gases with p -wave interaction in two dimensions, simply using the short-range asymptotic behavior of fermion-pair wave functions. For p -wave interactions, an additional contact related to the effective range needs to be introduced, besides the one related to the scattering volume. Since the subleading tail (k−4) of the large-momentum distribution cannot fully be captured by the contacts defined by the adiabatic relations, an extra term resulted from the center-of-mass motions of the pairs gives rise to an additional divergence in the kinetic energy of the system, besides those related to the contacts defined. We show in Tan's energy theorem that if only two-body correlations are taken into account, all these divergences are reasonably removed, leading to a finite internal energy of the system. In addition, we find that all the other universal relations, such as the high-frequency behavior of the radio-frequency response, short-range behavior of the pair correlation function, generalized virial theorem, and pressure relation, remain unaffected by the center-of-mass motions of the pairs, and are fully governed by the contacts defined by the adiabatic relations. Our results confirm the feasibility of generalizing the contact theory for higher-partial-wave scatterings, and could readily be confirmed in current experiments with ultracold 40K and 6Li atoms.