Statistics of the maximal distance and momentum in a trapped Fermi gas at low temperature

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA6DDAMaRDI QIDQ3303087zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David S. Dean, Pierre Le Doussal, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03954

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05)

Abstract: We consider $N$ non-interacting fermions in an isotropic $d$-dimensional harmonic trap. We compute analytically the cumulative distribution of the maximal radial distance of the fermions from the trap center at zero temperature. While in $d=1$ the limiting distribution (in the large $N$ limit), properly centered and scaled, converges to the squared Tracy-Widom distribution of the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble in Random Matrix Theory, we show that for all $d>1$, the limiting distribution converges to the Gumbel law. These limiting forms turn out to be universal, i.e., independent of the details of the trapping potential for a large class of isotropic trapping potentials. We also study the position of the right-most fermion in a given direction in $d$ dimensions and, in the case of a harmonic trap, the maximum momentum, and show that they obey similar Gumbel statistics. Finally, we generalize these results to low but finite temperature.

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