General coordinate invariance and conformal invariance in nonrelativistic physics: Unitary Fermi gas Export

@misc{citeulike:494573, abstract = {We show that the Lagrangian for interacting nonrelativistic particles can be coupled to an external gauge field and metric tensor in a way that exhibits a nonrelativistic version of general coordinate invariance. We explore the consequences of this invariance on the example of the degenerate Fermi gas at infinite scattering length, where conformal invariance also plays an important role. We find the most general effective Lagrangian consistent with both general coordinate and conformal invariance to leading and next-to-leading orders in the momentum expansion. At the leading order the Lagrangian contains one phenomenological constant and reproduces the results of the Thomas-Fermi theory and superfluid hydrodynamics. At the next-to-leading order there are two additional constants. We express various physical quantities through these constants.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Son, D. T. and Wingate, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {494573}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509786}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0509786}, day = {14}, eprint = {cond-mat/0509786}, keywords = {cond-mat, fermi\_gas}, month = {Jan}, posted-at = {2006-02-06 22:43:24}, priority = {2}, title = {General coordinate invariance and conformal invariance in nonrelativistic physics: Unitary Fermi gas}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509786}, year = {2006} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:494573 L3 - citeulike-article-id:494573 N2 - We show that the Lagrangian for interacting nonrelativistic particles can be coupled to an external gauge field and metric tensor in a way that exhibits a nonrelativistic version of general coordinate invariance. We explore the consequences of this invariance on the example of the degenerate Fermi gas at infinite scattering length, where conformal invariance also plays an important role. We find the most general effective Lagrangian consistent with both general coordinate and conformal invariance to leading and next-to-leading orders in the momentum expansion. At the leading order the Lagrangian contains one phenomenological constant and reproduces the results of the Thomas-Fermi theory and superfluid hydrodynamics. At the next-to-leading order there are two additional constants. We express various physical quantities through these constants. TI - General coordinate invariance and conformal invariance in nonrelativistic physics: Unitary Fermi gas KW - cond-mat KW - fermi_gas AU - Son, DT AU - Wingate, M PY - 2006/Jan/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509786 ER -