Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.113, No.52, 15016-15023, 2009
Collective Coordinate Description of Anisotropically Trapped Degenerate Fermi Gases
The solution of the many-body Schrodinger equation using an adiabatic treatment of the hyperradius is generalized to treat two components of a hyperspherical vector adiabatically. This treatment has advantages in certain physical situations, such as the description of a degenerate Fermi gas or Bose-Einstein condensate in an anisotropic trapping potential. A first application to the zero-temperature anisotropic Fermi gas is compared with predictions of the Hartree-Fock method.