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Two-body problem in periodic potentials
We investigate the problem of two atoms interacting via a short range s-wave
potential in the presence of a deep optical lattice of arbitrary dimension .
Using a tight binding approach, we derive analytical results for the properties
of the bound state and the scattering amplitude. We show that the tunneling
through the barriers induces a dimensional crossover from a confined regime at
high energy to an anisotropic three dimensional regime at low energy. The
critical value of the scattering length needed to form a two-body bound state
shows a logaritmic dependence on the tunneling rate for D=1 and a power law for
. For the special case D=1, we also compare our analytical predictions
with exact numerics, finding remarkably good agreement
BCS-BEC crossover in a random external potential
We investigate the ground state properties of a disordered superfluid Fermi
gas across the BCS-BEC (Bose Einstein condensate) crossover. We show that, for
weak disorder, both the depletion of the condensate fraction of pairs and the
normal fluid density exhibit a nonmonotonic behavior as a function of the
interaction parameter , reaching their minimum value near unitarity. We
find that, moving away from the weak coupling BCS regime, Anderson's theorem
ceases to apply and the superfluid order parameter is more and more affected by
the random potential.Comment: Revised version, one reference added, Phys. Rev. Lett. in pres
Lattice modulation spectroscopy of strongly interacting bosons in disordered and quasi-periodic optical lattices
We compute the absorption spectrum of strongly repulsive one-dimensional
bosons in a disordered or quasi-periodic optical lattice. At commensurate
filling, the particle-hole resonances of the Mott insulator are broadened as
the disorder strength is increased. In the non-commensurate case, mapping the
problem to the Anderson model allows us to study the Bose-glass phase.
Surprisingly we find that a perturbative treatment in both cases, weak and
strong disorder, gives a good description at all frequencies. In particular we
find that the infrared absorption rate in the thermodynamic limit is quadratic
in frequency. This result is unexpected, since for other quantities like the
conductivity in one dimensional systems, perturbation theory is only applicable
at high frequencies. We discuss applications to recent experiments on optical
lattice systems, and in particular the effect of the harmonic trap.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
Transport Properties in the "Strange Metal Phase" of High Tc Cuprates: Spin-Charge Gauge Theory Versus Experiments
The SU(2)xU(1) Chern-Simons spin-charge gauge approach developed earlier to
describe the transport properties of the cuprate superconductors in the
``pseudogap'' regime, in particular, the metal-insulator crossover of the
in-plane resistivity, is generalized to the ``strange metal'' phase at higher
temperature/doping. The short-range antiferromagnetic order and the gauge field
fluctuations, which were the key ingredients in the theory for the pseudogap
phase, also play an important role in the present case. The main difference
between these two phases is caused by the existence of an underlying
statistical -flux lattice for charge carriers in the former case, whereas
the background flux is absent in the latter case. The Fermi surface then
changes from small ``arcs'' in the pseudogap to a rather large closed line in
the strange metal phase. As a consequence the celebrated linear in T dependence
of the in-plane and out-of-plane resistivity is shown explicitly to recover.
The doping concentration and temperature dependence of theoretically calculated
in-plane and out-of-plane resistivity, spin-relaxation rate and AC conductivity
are compared with experimental data, showing good agreement.Comment: 14 pages, 5 .eps figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B, revised version
submitted on 24 Oc
Equilibrium and dynamics of a trapped superfluid Fermi gas with unequal masses
Interacting Fermi gases with equal populations but unequal masses are
investigated at zero temperature using local density approximation and the
hydrodynamic theory of superfluids in the presence of harmonic trapping.
We derive the conditions of energetic stability of the superfluid
configuration with respect to phase separation and the frequencies of the
collective oscillations in terms of the mass ratio and the trapping frequencies
of the two components. We discuss the behavior of the gas after the trapping
potential of a single component is switched off and show that, near a Feshbach
resonance, the released component can still remain trapped due to many-body
interaction effects. Explicit predictions are presented for a mixture of Li
and K with resonant interaction.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Attractive Fermi gases with unequal spin populations in highly elongated traps
We investigate two-component attractive Fermi gases with imbalanced spin
populations in trapped one dimensional configurations. The ground state
properties are determined within local density approximation, starting from the
exact Bethe-ansatz equations for the homogeneous case. We predict that the
atoms are distributed according to a two-shell structure: a partially polarized
phase in the center of the trap and either a fully paired or a fully polarized
phase in the wings. The partially polarized core is expected to be a superfluid
of the FFLO type. The size of the cloud as well as the critical spin
polarization needed to suppress the fully paired shell, are calculated as a
function of the coupling strength.Comment: Final accepted versio
Achieving one-dimensionality with attractive fermions
In this article we discuss the accuracy of effective one-dimensional theories
used to describe the behavior of ultracold atomic ensembles confined in quantum
wires by a harmonic trap. We derive within a fully many-body approach the
effective Hamiltonian describing this class of systems and we calculate the
beyond-mean field corrections to the energy of the ground state arising from
virtual transitions towards excited state of the confining potential. We find
that, due to the Pauli principle, effective finite-range corrections are one of
magnitude larger than effective three-body interactions.By comparing to exact
solutions of the purely 1D problem, we conclude that a 1D effective theory
provides a good description of the ground state of the system for a rather
large range of interaction parameters
Umklapp collisions and center of mass oscillation of a trapped Fermi gas
Starting from the the Boltzmann equation, we study the center of mass
oscillation of a harmonically trapped normal Fermi gas in the presence of a
one-dimensional periodic potential. We show that for values of the the Fermi
energy above the first Bloch band the center of mass motion is strongly damped
in the collisional regime due to umklapp processes. This should be contrasted
with the behaviour of a superfluid where one instead expects the occurrence of
persistent Josephson-like oscillations.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, corrected typo
Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional repulsive Fermi gases with population imbalance
The ground-state properties of two-component repulsive Fermi gases in two
dimensions are investigated by means of fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo
simulations. The energy per particle is determined as a function of the
intercomponent interaction strength and of the population imbalance. The regime
of universality in terms of the s-wave scattering length is identified by
comparing results for hard-disk and for soft-disk potentials. In the large
imbalance regime, the equation of state turns out to be well described by a
Landau-Pomeranchuk functional for two-dimensional polarons. To fully
characterize this expansion, we determine the polarons' effective mass and
their coupling parameter, complementing previous studies on their chemical
potential. Furthermore, we extract the magnetic susceptibility from
low-imbalance data, finding only small deviations from the mean-field
prediction. While the mean-field theory predicts a direct transition from a
paramagnetic to a fully ferromagnetic phase, our diffusion Monte Carlo results
suggest that the partially ferromagnetic phase is stable in a narrow interval
of the interaction parameter. This finding calls for further analyses on the
effects due to the fixed-node constraint.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
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