194 research outputs found
Coupled pair approach for strongly-interacting trapped fermionic atoms
We present a coupled pair approach for studying few-body physics in
harmonically trapped ultracold gases. The method is applied to a two-component
Fermi system of particles. A stochastically variational gaussian expansion
method is applied, focusing on optimization of the two-body correlations
present in the strongly interacting, or unitary, limit. The groundstate energy
of the four-, six- and eight-body problem with equal spin populations is
calculated with high accuracy and minimal computational effort. We also
calculate the structural properties of these systems and discuss their
implication for the many-body ultracold gas and other few-body calculations.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Universality in rotating strongly interacting gases
We analytically determine the properties of two interacting particles in a
harmonic trap subject to a rotation or a uniform synthetic magnetic field,
where the spherical symmetry of the relative Hamiltonian is preserved.
Thermodynamic quantities such as the entropy and energy are calculated via the
second order quantum cluster expansion. We find that in the strongly
interacting regime the energy is universal, however the entropy changes as a
function of the rotation or synthetic magnetic field strength.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Universality and itinerant ferromagnetism in rotating strongly interacting Fermi gases
We analytically determine the properties of three interacting fermions in a
harmonic trap subject to an external rotation. Thermodynamic quantities such as
the entropy and energy are calculated from the third order quantum virial
expansion. By parameterizing the solutions in the rotating frame we find that
the energy and entropy are universal for all rotations in the strongly
interacting regime. Additionally, we find that rotation suppresses the onset of
itinerant ferromagnetism in strongly interacting repulsive three-body systems.Comment: 5 pages with 3 figure
Critical behaviour of the extended-ballistic transition for pulled self-avoiding walks
In order to study the competition of pulling a long chain polymer with its
other system properties models of lattice polymers accomodate an applied
pulling force to some part of a lattice polymer in addition to features such as
energetic interaction between the lattice polymer and a surface. However, the
critical behaviour of the pulling force alone is less well studied, such as
characterizing the nature of the phase transition and particularly the values
of the associated exponents. We investigate a simple model of lattice polymers
subject to forced extension, namely self-avoiding walks (SAWs) on the square
and simple cubic lattices with one endpoint attached to an impermeable surface
and a force applied to the other endpoint acting perpendicular to the surface.
In the thermodynamic limit the system undergoes a transition to a ballistic
phase as the force is varied and it is known that this transition occurs
whenever the magnitude of the force is positive, i.e. . Using
well established scaling arguments we show that the crossover exponent
for the finite-size model is identical to the well-known exponent ,
which controls the scaling of the size of the polymer in -dimensions. With
extensive Monte Carlo simulations we test this conjecture and show that the
value of is indeed consistent with the known values of and
. Scaling arguments, in turn, imply the specific heat
exponent is in two dimensions and in three
dimensions.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
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