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Thursday, July 08, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
T-DO Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 123)

Quantum Lunch

Finite temperature theory for a single component dipolar Fermi gas

Blair Blakie
University of Otago

There has been significant recent experimental progress towards producing a degenerate Fermi gas with dipole-dipole interactions. I will discuss the properties of a single component gas, using calculations based on self-consistent Hartree-Fock theory which accounts for both direct and exchange interactions. We study the thermodynamic and the first and second order correlation properties of the system. We find that the system entropy depends on the trap geometry, allowing the system to be cooled as the trap aspect ratio is increased. We also find that exchange interactions cause the correlation functions to be anisotropic in the low temperature regime. If time allows I will talk about work underway to provide a beyond-meanfield description of the bosonic system.

Host: Malcolm Boshier