Physical dipoles and second order perturbation theory for dipolar fermions in two dimensions

In two dimensions the Fourier transform of the interaction between two point dipoles has a term which grows linearly in the modulus $| \mathbf{\textit{q}} |$ of the momentum . As a consequence, in second order perturbation theory the self-energy of two-dimensional dipolar fermions is ultraviolet divergent. We show that for electric dipoles this divergence can be avoided if one takes into account that physical dipoles consist of two opposite charges which are separated by a finite distance. Using this regularization, we calculate the self-energy, the renormalized chemical potential, and the renormalized Fermi surface of dipolar fermions in two dimensions in second order perturbation theory. We find that in the Fermi liquid phase the second order corrections weaken first order effects.