404 research outputs found
Boson-fermion mixtures inside an elongated cigar-shaped trap
We present mean-field calculations of the equilibrium state in a gaseous
mixture of bosonic and spin-polarized fermionic atoms with repulsive or
attractive interspecies interactions, confined inside a cigar-shaped trap under
conditions such that the radial thickness of the two atomic clouds is
approaching the magnitude of the s-wave scattering lengths. In this regime the
kinetic pressure of the fermionic component is dominant. Full demixing under
repulsive boson-fermion interactions can occur only when the number of fermions
in the trap is below a threshold, and collapse under attractive interactions is
suppressed within the range of validity of the mean-field model. Specific
numerical illustrations are given for values of system parameters obtaining in
7Li-6Li clouds.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Renormalization Group Analysis of a Gursey Model Inspired Field Theory II
Recently a model, which is equivalent to the scalar form of Gursey model, is
shown to be a nontrivial field theoretical model when it is gauged with a SU(N)
field. In this paper we study another model that is equivalent to the vector
form of the Gursey model. We get a trivial theory when it is coupled with a
scalar field. This result changes drastically when it is coupled with an
additional SU(N) field. We find a nontrivial field theoretical model under
certain conditions.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, revtex4, typos corrected, published versio
Collective excitations of a trapped boson-fermion mixture across demixing
We calculate the spectrum of low-lying collective excitations in a mesoscopic
cloud formed by a Bose-Einstein condensate and a spin-polarized Fermi gas as a
function of the boson-fermion repulsions. The cloud is under isotropic harmonic
confinement and its dynamics is treated in the collisional regime by using the
equations of generalized hydrodynamics with inclusion of surface effects. For
large numbers of bosons we find that, as the cloud moves towards spatial
separation (demixing) with increasing boson-fermion coupling, the frequencies
of a set of collective modes show a softening followed by a sharp upturn. This
behavior permits a clear identification of the quantum phase transition. We
propose a physical interpretation for the dynamical transition point in a
confined mixture, leading to a simple analytical expression for its location.Comment: revtex4, 9 pages, 8 postscript file
Transmittivity of a Bose-Einstein condensate on a lattice: interference from period doubling and the effect of disorder
We evaluate the particle current flowing in steady state through a
Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a constant force in a quasi-onedimensional
lattice and to attractive interactions from fermionic atoms that are localized
in various configurations inside the lattice wells. The system is treated
within a Bose-Hubbard tight binding model by an out-of-equilibrium Green's
function approach. A new band gap opens up when the lattice period is doubled
by locating the fermions in alternate wells and yields an interference pattern
in the transmittivity on varying the intensity of the driving force. The
positions of the transmittivity minima are determined by matching the period of
Bloch oscillations and the time for tunnelling across the band gap. Massive
disorder in the distribution of the fermions will wash out the interference
pattern, but the same period doubling of the lattice can be experimentally
realized in a four-beam set-up. We report illustrative numerical results for a
mixture of 87Rb and 40K atoms in an optical lattice created by laser beams with
a wavelength of 763 nm.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Demixing in mesoscopic boson-fermion clouds inside cylindrical harmonic traps: quantum phase diagram and role of temperature
We use a semiclassical three-fluid thermodynamic model to evaluate the
phenomena of spatial demixing in mesoscopic clouds of fermionic and bosonic
atoms at high dilution under harmonic confinement, assuming repulsive
boson-boson and boson-fermion interactions and including account of a bosonic
thermal cloud at finite temperature T. The finite system size allows three
different regimes for the equilibrium density profiles at T=0: a fully mixed
state, a partially mixed state in which the overlap between the boson and
fermion clouds is decreasing, and a fully demixed state where the two clouds
have zero overlap. We propose simple analytical rules for the two cross-overs
between the three regimes as functions of the physical system parameters and
support these rules by extensive numerical calculations. A universal ``phase
diagram'' expressed in terms of simple scaling parameters is shown to be valid
for the transition to the regime of full demixing, inside which we identify
several exotic configurations for the two phase-separated clouds in addition to
simple ones consisting of a core of bosons enveloped by fermions and "vice
versa". With increasing temperature the main role of the growing thermal cloud
of bosons is to transform some exotic configurations into more symmetric ones,
until demixing is ultimately lost. For very high values of boson-fermion
repulsive coupling we also report demixing between the fermions and the
thermally excited bosons.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
Collective excitations in trapped boson-fermion mixtures: from demixing to collapse
We calculate the spectrum of low-lying collective excitations in a gaseous
cloud formed by a Bose-Einstein condensate and a spin-polarized Fermi gas over
a range of the boson-fermion coupling strength extending from strongly
repulsive to strongly attractive. Increasing boson-fermion repulsions drive the
system towards spatial separation of its components (``demixing''), whereas
boson-fermion attractions drive it towards implosion (``collapse''). The
dynamics of the system is treated in the experimentally relevant collisionless
regime by means of a Random-Phase approximation and the behavior of a
mesoscopic cloud under isotropic harmonic confinement is contrasted with that
of a macroscopic mixture at given average particle densities. In the latter
case the locations of both the demixing and the collapse phase transitions are
sharply defined by the same stability condition, which is determined by the
softening of an eigenmode of either fermionic or bosonic origin. In contrast,
the transitions to either demixing or collapse in a mesoscopic cloud at fixed
confinement and particle numbers are spread out over a range of boson-fermion
coupling strength, and some initial decrease of the frequencies of a set of
collective modes is followed by hardening as evidenced by blue shifts of most
eigenmodes. The spectral hardening can serve as a signal of the impending
transition and is most evident when the number of bosons in the cloud is
relatively large. We propose physical interpretations for these dynamical
behaviors with the help of suitably defined partial compressibilities for the
gaseous cloud under confinement.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures, revtex
Friedel oscillations in a gas of interacting one-dimensional fermionic atoms confined in a harmonic trap
Using an asymptotic phase representation of the particle density operator
in the one-dimensional harmonic trap, the part which describes the Friedel oscillations is extracted. The
expectation value with respect to the interacting
ground state requires the calculation of the mean square average of a properly
defined phase operator. This calculation is performed analytically for the
Tomonaga-Luttinger model with harmonic confinement. It is found that the
envelope of the Friedel oscillations at zero temperature decays with the
boundary exponent away from the classical boundaries. This
value differs from that known for open boundary conditions or strong pinning
impurities. The soft boundary in the present case thus modifies the decay of
Friedel oscillations. The case of two components is also discussed.Comment: Revised version to appear in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular
and Optical Physic
Exact first-order density matrix for a d-dimensional harmonically confined Fermi gas at finite temperature
We present an exact closed form expression for the {\em finite temperature}
first-order density matrix of a harmonically trapped ideal Fermi gas in any
dimension. This constitutes a much sought after generalization of the recent
results in the literature, where exact expressions have been limited to
quantities derived from the {\em diagonal} first-order density matrix. We
compare our exact results with the Thomas-Fermi approximation (TFA) and
demonstrate numerically that the TFA provides an excellent description of the
first-order density matrix in the large-N limit. As an interesting application,
we derive a closed form expression for the finite temperature Hartree-Fock
exchange energy of a two-dimensional parabolically confined quantum dot. We
numerically test this exact result against the 2D TF exchange functional, and
comment on the applicability of the local-density approximation (LDA) to the
exchange energy of an inhomogeneous 2D Fermi gas.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures included in the text, RevTeX4. Text before
Eq.(25) corrected. Additional equation following Eq.(25) has been adde
Temperature dependence of density profiles for a cloud of non-interacting fermions moving inside a harmonic trap in one dimension
We extend to finite temperature a Green's function method that was previously
proposed to evaluate ground-state properties of mesoscopic clouds of
non-interacting fermions moving under harmonic confinement in one dimension. By
calculations of the particle and kinetic energy density profiles we illustrate
the role of thermal excitations in smoothing out the quantum shell structure of
the cloud and in spreading the particle spill-out from quantum tunnel at the
edges. We also discuss the approach of the exact density profiles to the
predictions of a semiclassical model often used in the theory of confined
atomic gases at finite temperature.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
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