Langevin equations for interacting fermions and Cooper-like pairing in trapped one-dimensional fermions

L. I. Plimak, M. J. Collett, and M. K. Olsen
Phys. Rev. A 64, 063409 – Published 16 November 2001
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Abstract

Momentum correlations in a one-dimensional equilibrium ensemble of trapped fermions, with a point interaction between particles of opposite spin have been studied. In the degenerate regime correlations were observed between fermions with opposite spins and momenta, similar to Cooper pairing. These correlations appear as soon as the temperature is below the Fermi energy, which is a much less stringent condition than that of the BCS transition proper. Calculations are carried out in both perturbative and non-perturbative regimes. To achieve the latter, it is shown that interacting fermionic dynamics may be solved as a stochastic linear transformation of Grassmann algebra generators, much in the way random c-number paths are introduced in the conventional quantum stochastics of bosons. Importantly, the method thus emerging is inherently free of the sign problem.

  • Received 30 October 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.64.063409

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

L. I. Plimak1,2, M. J. Collett1, and M. K. Olsen1,3

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 2Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rechovot, Israel
  • 3Insituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Boa Viagem 24210-340, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Vol. 64, Iss. 6 — December 2001

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