High-temperature expansion for interacting fermions

TL;DR

This paper introduces a general high-temperature expansion method for the self-energy of interacting fermions, incorporating two- and three-body correlations, and applies it to analyze Tan's contact and spectral functions across the BEC-BCS crossover.

Contribution

It develops a novel high-temperature expansion technique for fermionic self-energy that includes three-body correlations, advancing understanding of spectral functions in strongly interacting regimes.

Findings

Inclusion of three-body correlations reveals new spectral structures.

The method accurately expands Tan's contact up to order z^3.

New features in spectral functions at unitarity were identified.

Abstract

We present a general method for the high-temperature expansion of the self-energy of interacting particles. Though the method is valid for fermions and bosons, we illustrate it for spin one half fermions interacting via a zero range potential, in the Bose Einstein Condensate - Bardeen Cooper Schrieffer (BEC-BCS) crossover. The small parameter of the expansion is the fugacity z. Our results include terms of order z and z^2, which take into account respectively two and three body correlations. We give results for the high temperature expansion of Tan's contact at order z^3 in the whole BEC-BCS crossover. We apply our method to calculate the spectral function at the unitary limit. We find new structures which were overlooked by previous approaches, which included only two body correlations. This shows that including three-body correlations can play an important role in the structures of the spectral function.