4 research outputs found
Residual entropy and critical behavior of two interacting boson species in a double well
Motivated by the importance of entanglement and correlation indicators in the
analysis of quantum systems, we study the equilibrium and the bipartite
residual entropy in a two-species Bose Hubbard dimer when the spatial phase
separation of the two species takes place. We consider both the zero and
non-zero-temperature regime. We present different kinds of residual entropies
(each one associated to a different way of partitioning the system), and we
show that they strictly depend on the specific quantum phase characterizing the
two species (supermixed, mixed or demixed) even at finite temperature. To
provide a deeper physical insight into the zero-temperature scenario, we apply
the fully-analytical variational approach based on su(2) coherent states and
provide a considerably good approximation of the entanglement entropy. Finally,
we show that the effectiveness of bipartite residual entropy as a critical
indicator at non-zero temperature is unchanged when considering a restricted
combination of energy eigenstates.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figure
The phase-separation mechanism of a binary mixture in a ring trimer
We show that, depending on the ratio between the inter- and the intra-species
interactions, a binary mixture trapped in a three-well potential with periodic
boundary conditions exhibits three macroscopic ground-state configurations
which differ in the degree of mixing. Accordingly, the corresponding quantum
states feature either delocalization or a Schr\"odinger cat-like structure. The
two-step phase separation occurring in the system, which is smoothed by the
activation of tunnelling processes, is confirmed by the analysis of the energy
spectrum that collapses and rearranges at the two critical points. In such
points, we show that also Entanglement Entropy, a quantity borrowed from
quantum-information theory, features singularities, thus demonstrating its
ability to witness the double mixining-demixing phase transition. The developed
analysis, which is of interest to both the experimental and theoretical
communities, opens the door to the study of the demixing mechanism in complex
lattice geometries.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
The mixing-demixing phase diagram of ultracold heteronuclear mixtures in a ring trimer
We derive the complete mixing-demixing phase-diagram relevant to a bosonic binary mixture confined in a ring trimer and modeled within the Bose-Hubbard picture. The mixing properties of the two quantum fluids, which are shown to be strongly affected by the fragmented character of the confining potential, are evaluated by means of a specific indicator imported from Statistical Thermodynamics and are shown to depend only on two effective parameters incorporating the asymmetry between the heteronuclear species. To closely match realistic experimental conditions, our study is extended also beyond the pointlike approximation of potential wells by describing the systems in terms of two coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations. The resulting mean-field analysis confirms the rich scenario of mixing-demixing transitions of the mixture and also constitutes an effective springboard towards a viable experimental realization. We additionally propose an experimental realization based on a realistic optical-tweezers system and on the bosonic mixture 23 Na + 39 K, thanks to the large tunability of their intra- and inter-species scattering lengths. © 2019, The Author(s)