Density Functional Theory Studies of Magnetically ConfinedFermi Gas

A theory is developed for magnetically confined Fermi gas at a low temperature based on the density functional theory. The theory is illustrated by the numerical calculation of the density distributions of Fermi atoms ⁴⁰K with parameters according to DeMarco and Jin's experiment Science, 285(1999)1703. Our results are in close agreement with the experiment. To check the theory, we also performed calculations using our theory at a high temperature, which compared very well to the results of the classical limit.