We used the Cornwall, Jackiw and Tomboulis (CJT) resummation scheme to study nuclear matter. In the CJT formalism the meson propagators are treated as the bare propagators and the the higher order loop corrections of the thermodynamic potential are evaluated at the Hartree approximation, while the vacuum fluctuations are ignored. Under these treatments in the CJT formalism we derived exact mean-field theory (MFT) results for the nuclear matter. The results are thermodynamically consistent, and our study indicates that the MFT result is the lowest order resummation result in the CJT resummation scheme. The relation between CJT formalism and MFT is clearly presented through the calculations.
This paper analyses the dispersion relation of the excitation mode in non-relativistic interacting fermion matter. The polarization tensor is calculated with the random phase approximation in terms of finite temperature field theory. With the polarization tensor, the influences of temperature, particle number density and interaction strength on the dispersion relation are discussed in detail. It finds that the collective effects are qualitatively more important in the unitary fermions than those in the finite contact interaction matter.
Due to the scale invariance, the thermodynamic laws of strongly interacting limit unitary Fermi gas can be similar to those of non-interacting ideal gas. For example, the virial theorem between pressure and energy density of the ideal gas P = 2E/aV is still satisfied by the unitary Fermi gas. This paper analyses the sound velocity of unitary Fermi gases with the quasi-linear approximation. For comparison, the sound velocities for the ideal Boltzmann, Bose and Fermi gas are also given. Quite interestingly, the sound velocity formula for the ideal non-interacting gas is found to be satisfied by the unitary Fermi gas in different temperature regions.
A matrix eigenvalue method is applied to analyse the thermodynamic stability of two-component interacting fermions. The non-relativistic and ultra-relativistic d = 1, 2, 3 dimensions have been discussed in detail, respectively. The corresponding stability region has been given according to the two-body interaction strength and the particle number density ratio.
Deconfinement phase transition is studied in the FL model at finite temperature and chemical potential. At MFT approximation, phase transition can only be first order in the whole μ-T phase plane. Using a Landau expansion, we further study the phase transition order and the possible phase diagram of deconfinement. We discuss the possibilities of second order phase transitions in the FL model. From our analysis, if the cubic term in the Landau expansion could be cancelled by the higher order fluctuations, second order phase transition may occur. By an ansatz of the Landau parameters, we obtain a possible phase diagram with both the first and second order phase transitions, including the tri-critical point which is similar to that of the chiral phase transition.
We study the dispersion relation of the excitation mode in a spin-polarized Fermi gas. In the frame of the imaginarytime finite temperature field theory, the polarization tensor is calculated by taking the random phase approximation. The population imbalance effects on the dispersion relation of the excitation mode and the spin-spin correlation susceptibility are investigated. The numerical results in terms of the imbalance ratio indicate the polarization effects on the dispersion relation and susceptibility X.