Density functional theory for trapped ultracold fermions

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Akyar, Özge

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Recently a new outlook on dealing with dipolar ultracold fermions based on density functional methods has received attention. A Thomas-Fermi treatment coupled with a variational approach has been developed for a collection of fermions trapped in a harmonic potential interacting via dipole-dipole forces. In this thesis, firstly our alternative formalism for Thomas-Fermi method by performing some calculations based on the Kohn-Sham formalism which is one of the main idea of density functional theory is investigated. Furthermore, density distributions are obtained dependent to the parameters; rescaled interaction strength, dipole-dipole energy and the trap parameter which determine the trap geometry based on this theory. The thesis starts with a brief outline of the density functional theory and theory of our system, continues with calculations based on this theory, which are free of any variational assumptions for the density profile. Moreover, results of density graphics for harmonic trap will be followed by discussion of comparison and contrast with Thomas-Fermi method based on the paper of Goral et al.. These discussions are mainly about the shape of the density distribution, variation of the cloud parameters and energy behaviours according to the rescaled interaction strength. The thesis concludes with an analysis of contribution of density functional theory to this fermionic system.

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Physics., Optics.

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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Ö. Akyar, “Density functional theory for trapped ultracold fermions,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.