https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2013-13140-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Single-particle potential from resummed ladder diagrams
Physik-Department T39, Technische Universität München, D-85747, Garching, Germany
* e-mail: nkaiser@ph.tum.de
Received:
30
July
2013
Revised:
9
October
2013
Accepted:
10
October
2013
Published online:
12
November
2013
A recent work on the resummation of fermionic in-medium ladder diagrams to all orders is extended by calculating the complex single-particle potential U(p, k
f
) + i W(p, k
f
) p > k
f
. The on-shell single-particle potential is constructed by means of a complex-valued in-medium loop that includes corrections from a test particle of momentum 
added to the filled Fermi sea. The single-particle potential U(k
f
, k
f
) at the Fermi surface as obtained from the resummation of the combined particle and hole ladder diagrams is shown to satisfy the Hugenholtz-Van-Hove theorem. The perturbative contributions at various orders a
n
in the scattering length are deduced and checked against the known analytical results at order a
1 and a
2. The limit a → ∞ is studied as a special case and a strong momentum dependence of the real (and imaginary) single-particle potential is found. This feature indicates an instability against a phase transition to a state with an empty shell inside the Fermi sphere such that the density gets reduced by about 5%. The imaginary single-particle potential vanishes linearly at the Fermi surface. For comparison, the same analysis is performed for the resummed particle-particle ladder diagrams alone. In this truncation an instability for hole excitations near the Fermi surface is found at strong coupling. For the set of particle-hole ring diagrams the single-particle potential is calculated as well. Furthermore, the resummation of in-medium ladder diagrams to all orders is studied for a two-dimensional Fermi gas with a short-range two-body contact interaction.
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