Specific Heat and Effects of Uniaxial Anisotropy of a $p$-wave Pairing Interaction in a Strongly Interacting Ultracold Fermi Gas

Abstract

We investigate the specific heat $C_V$ at constant volume and effects of uniaxial anisotropy of a $p$-wave attractive interaction in the normal state of an ultracold Fermi gas. Within the framework of the strong-coupling theory developed by Nozières and Schmitt-Rink, we evaluate this thermodynamic quantity as a function of temperature, in the whole interaction regime. While the uniaxial anisotropy is not crucial for $C_V$ in the weak-coupling regime, $C_V$ is found to be sensitive to the uniaxial anisotropy in the strong-coupling regime. This originates from the population imbalance among $p_i$-wave molecules ($i=x,y,z$), indicating that the specific heat is a useful observable to see which kinds of $p$-wave molecules dominantly exist in the strong-coupling regime when the $p$-wave interaction has uniaxial anisotropy. Using this strong point, we classify the strong-coupling regime into some characteristic regions. Since a $p$-wave pairing interaction with uniaxial anisotropy has been discovered in a ${}^{40}$K Fermi gas, our results would be useful in considering strong-coupling properties of a $p$-wave interacting Fermi gas, when the interaction is uniaxially anisotropic.

arXiv comment21 pages, 7 figures

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