paper

Fermi gas in harmonic oscillator potentials

arXiv:quant-ph/0003030 · doi:10.1238/Physica.Regular.060a00117

Abstract

Assuming the validity of grand canonical statistics, we study the properties of a spin-polarized Fermi gas in harmonic traps. Universal forms of Fermi temperature $T_{F}$ , internal energy $U$ and the specific heat per particle of the trapped Fermi gas are calculated as a {\it function} of particle number, and the results compared with those of infinite number particles.

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