title: Ground-state pressure of quasi-2D Fermi and Bose gases.
abstract: Using an ultracold gas of atoms, we have realized a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi system with widely tunable s-wave interactions nearly in a ground state. Pressure and density are measured. The experiment covers physically different regimes: weakly and strongly attractive Fermi gases and a Bose gas of tightly bound pairs of fermions. In the Fermi regime of weak interactions, the pressure is systematically above a Fermi-liquid-theory prediction, maybe due to mesoscopic effects. In the opposite Bose regime, the pressure agrees with a bosonic mean-field scaling in a range beyond simplest expectations. In the strongly interacting regime, measurements disagree with a purely 2D model. Reported data may serve for sensitive testing of theoretical methods applicable across different quantum physics disciplines.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ulitsa Ulyanova 46, Nizhniy Novgorod, 603000, Russia.
authors.forename: Vasiliy
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Makhalov
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ulitsa Ulyanova 46, Nizhniy Novgorod, 603000, Russia.
authors.forename: Kirill
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Martiyanov
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ulitsa Ulyanova 46, Nizhniy Novgorod, 603000, Russia.
authors.forename: Andrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Turlapov