Ultracold spin-balanced fermionic quantum liquids with renormalized $P$-wave interactions

Abstract

We consider a spin-balanced degenerate gas of spin-1/2 fermions whose dynamics is governed by low-energy $P$-wave interactions, characterized by the scattering volume $a_1$ and effective momentum $r_1$. The energy per particle $\bar{\mathcal{E}}$ in the many-body system is calculated by resumming the ladder diagrams comprising both particle-particle and hole-hole intermediate states, following the novel advances recently developed by us in Ann.Phys. 437,168741(2022). This allows to obtain a renormalized result for $\bar{\mathcal{E}}$ within generic cutoff regularization schemes, with $\bar{\mathcal{E}}$ directly expressed in terms of the scattering parameters $a_1$ and $r_1$, once the cut off is sent to infinity. The whole set of possible values of $a_1$ and $r_1$ is explored for the first time in the literature looking for minima in the energy per particle with $\bar{\mathcal{E}}$ given as described. They are actually found, but a further inspection reveals that the associated scattering parameters give rise to resonance poles in the complex momentum-plane with positive imaginary part, which is at odds with the Hermiticity of the Hamiltonian. We also determine that these conflictive poles, with a pole-position momentum that is smaller in absolute value than the Fermi momentum of the system, clearly impact the calculation of $\bar{\mathcal{E}}$. As a result, we conclude that unpolarized spin-1/2 fermionic normal matter interacting in $P$-wave is not stable. We also study three universal parameters around the unitary limit. Finally, the whole set of values for the parameters $a_1$, $r_1$ is characterized according to whether they give rise to unallowed poles and, if so, by attending to their pole positions relative to the Fermi momentum of the system explored.

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