Excitation spectrum and effective interactions of a highly elongated Fermi gas

Abstract

Full 3D calculations of small two-component Fermi gases under highly-elongated confinement, in which unlike fermions interact through short-range potentials with variable atom-atom s-wave scattering length, are performed using the correlated Gaussian approach. In addition, microscopic 1D calculations are performed for effective "atomic" and "molecular" 1D model Hamiltonian. Comparisons of the 3D and 1D energies and excitation frequencies establish the validity regimes of the effective 1D Hamiltonian. Our numerical results for three- and four-particle systems suggest that the effective 1D atom-dimer and dimer-dimer interactions are to a good approximation determined by simple analytical expressions. Implications for the description of quasi-1D Fermi gases within strict 1D frameworks are discussed.