• DOI:10.1142/9781848168121_0026
• Corpus ID: 118423067

Time-Dependent Superfluid Local Density Approximation

@article{Bulgac2013TimeDependentSL,
  title={Time-Dependent Superfluid Local Density Approximation},
  author={Aurel Bulgac and Michael McNeil Forbes},
  journal={arXiv: Quantum Gases},
  year={2013}
}

• A. Bulgac, M. Forbes
• Published 10 January 2013
• Physics
• arXiv: Quantum Gases

The time-dependent superfluid local density approximation (TDSLDA) is an extension of the Hohenberg-Kohn density functional theory (DFT) to time-dependent phenomena in superfluid fermionic systems. Unlike linear response theory, which is only valid for weak external fields, the (TDSLDA) approach allows one to study non-linear excitations in fermionic superfluids, including large amplitude collective modes, and the response to strong external probes. Even in the case of weak external fields, the (TDSLDA) approach is technically easier to implement. We will illustrate the implementation of the (TDSLDA) for the unitary Fermi gas, where dimensional arguments and Galilean invariance simplify the form of the functional, and ab initio input from (QMC) simulations fix the coefficients to quite high precision.