Ideal Fermi gases in harmonic oscillator potential traps

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2005.04.018MaRDI QIDQ2583791zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David J. Toms

Publication date 18 January 2006

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505316

zbMATH Keywords

Fermi gasharmonic oscillatorpotential trap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05)

Abstract: We study the thermodynamic properties of an ideal gas of fermions in a harmonic oscillator confining potential. The analogy between this problem and the de Haas-van Alphen effect is discussed and used to obtain analytical results for the chemical potential and specific heat in the case of both isotropic and anisotropic potentials. Step-like behaviour in the chemical potential, first noted in numerical studies, is obtained analytically and shown to result in an oscillatory behaviour of the specific heat when the particle number is varied. The origin of these oscillations is that part of the thermodynamic potential responsible for the de Haas-van Alphen-type effect. At low temperatures we show analytically that there are significant deviations in the specific heat from the expected linear temperature dependence, again as a consequence of the de Haas-van Alphen part of the thermodynamic potential. Results are given for one, two, and three spatial dimensions. In the anisotropic case we show how the specific heat jumps as the ratio of oscillator frequencies varies.

Review text

The authors study the ideal Fermi gas in harmonic oscillator potential. The particles are considered to be not interacting and the continuum approach is used. All the calculations were done in terms of the inverse Laplace transform of the partition function. The thermodynamic potential, chemical potential and the specific heat were computed, both for symmetric and asymmetric potential analytically. The low dimensionality systems in one and two dimensions were also considered. The analytical study of the various cases is done, based on the structure of the complex poles. A step-like behavior for the specific heat is established and former numerical results were explained. Significant deviations from the linear temperature dependence of the specific heat were observed. In one dimension the specific heat was computed to be vanishing exponentially in terms of the inverse temperature and be periodical in terms of the number of particles. In the asymmetric case periodicity was observed in terms of the potential. The relation with de Haas--van Alphen effect is also studied.

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