Ground state energy of dense gases of strongly interacting fermions

Abstract

We study the ground state energy of a gas of $N$ fermions confined to a unit box in $d$ dimensions. The particles interact through a 2-body potential with strength scaled in an $N$-dependent way as $N^{-\alpha}v$, where $\alpha\in \mathbb R$ and $v$ is a function of positive type satisfying a mild regularity assumption. Our focus is on the strongly interacting case $\alpha<1-\frac2d$. We contrast our result with existing results in the weakly interacting case $\alpha>1-\frac2d$, and the transition happening at the mean-field scaling $\alpha=1-\frac2d$. Our proof is an adaptation of the bosonization technique used to treat the mean-field case.