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  Ultracold finite-size Fermi gas in a quartic trap# CHEN Liwei, SU Guozhen, CHEN Jincan** (Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Xiamen University, 5 10 15 20 25 30 FuJian XiaMen 361005) Abstract: Low temperature properties of a finite-size ideal Fermi gas trapped in a quartic potential are studied. The curves of the chemical potential and specific heat varying with the particle number and temperature are plotted. The results obtained here are based on the numerical calculation of the state sum without invoking the Thomas-Fermi approximation, so that the more detailed dependences of the chemical potential and specific heat on the particle number and temperature are revealed. Keywords: Fermi gas; quartic trap; finite-size The cooling and trapping of dilute Fermi gases have attracted much attention over the past years [1-5]. Most of the experiments on the cold atomic system are carried out in either magnetic or optical harmonic traps. The external trapping potential plays an important role in current experimental setups. For the case of rapidly rotating Fermi gasses, experiments in harmonic traps are limited by the loss of confinement due to centrifugal forces when the rotation frequency approaches the axial harmonic trapping frequency. Therefore, a quartic potential term is often added to ensure the stability of the fast rotating regime [6, 7]. The properties of Bose gases confined in a quartic trap have been extensively studied [8-10]. Chaudhary et al. [9] presented a detailed study of interacting bosons in one-, two-, and three-dimensional quartic traps. The critical temperature of an ideal boson system confined in a quartic potential was evaluated in Ref. [10]. In contrast, the corresponding investigations are relatively seldom done for the Fermi gases. In this paper, low temperature properties of an ideal Fermi gas trapped in a quartic potential are studied. As opposed to the conventional method where the Thomas-Fermi