Collective coordinate description of anisotropically trapped degenerate Fermi gases.
The solution of the many-body Schrödinger equation using an adiabatic treatment of the hyperradius is generalized to treat two components of a hyperspherical vector adiabatically. This treatment has advantages in certain physical situations, such as the description of a degenerate Fermi gas or Bose-Einstein condensate in an anisotropic trapping potential. A first application to the zero-temperature anisotropic Fermi gas is compared with predictions of the Hartree-Fock method.
Rittenhouse
Seth T
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Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA. srittenhouse@cfa.harvard.edu
Cavagnero
M J
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Greene
Chris H
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