Nonrelativistic Conformal Invariance in Mesoscopic Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

Two-dimensional Fermi gases with universal short-range interactions are known to exhibit a quantum anomaly, where a classical scale and conformal invariance is broken by quantum effects at strong coupling. We argue that in a quasi two-dimensional geometry, a conformal window remains at weak interactions. Using degenerate perturbation theory, we verify the conformal symmetry by computing the energy spectrum of mesoscopic particle ensembles in a harmonic trap, which separates into conformal towers formed by so-called primary states and their center-of-mass and breathing-mode excitations, the latter having excitation energies at precisely twice the harmonic oscillator energy. In addition, using Metropolis importance sampling, we compute the hyperradial distribution function of the many-body wave functions, which are predicted by the conformal symmetry in closed analytical form. The weakly interacting Fermi gas constitutes a system where the nonrelativistic conformal symmetry can be revealed using elementary methods, and our results are testable in current experiments on mesoscopic Fermi gases.

Författare

Viktor Bekassy

Student vid Chalmers

Johannes Hofmann

Göteborgs universitet

Physical Review Letters

0031-9007 (ISSN) 1079-7114 (eISSN)

Vol. 128 19 193401

Ämneskategorier

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Annan fysik

Teoretisk kemi

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.193401

PubMed

35622033

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