Ground state energy of the polarized diluted gas of interacting spin $1/2$ fermions

Abstract

The effective field theory approach simplifies the perturbative computation of the ground state energy of the diluted gas of fermions allowing in the case of the unpolarized system to easily re-derive the classic results up to the $(k_{\rm F}a_0)^2$ order (where $k_{\rm F}$ is the system's Fermi momentum and $a_0$ the $s$-wave scattering length) and (with more labour) to extend it up to the order $(k_{\rm F}a_0)^4$. The corresponding expansion of the ground state energy of the polarized gas of spin $1/2$ fermions is known analytically (to our best knowledge) only up to the $k_{\rm F}a_0$ (where $k_{\rm F}$ stands for $k_{{\rm F}\uparrow}$ or $k_{{\rm F}\downarrow}$) order. Here we show that the same effective field theory method allows to easily compute also the order $(k_{\rm F}a_0)^2$ correction to this result.