Condensate density and superfluid mass density of a dilute Bose gas near the condensation transition

We derive, through analysis of the structure of diagrammatic perturbation theory, the scaling behavior of the condensate and superfluid mass density of a dilute Bose gas just below the condensation transition. Sufficiently below the critical temperature, $T_c$, the system is governed by the mean field (Bogoliubov) description of the particle excitations. Close to $T_c$, however, mean field breaks down and the system undergoes a second order phase transition, rather than the first order transition predicted in Bogoliubov theory. Both condensation and superfluidity occur at the same critical temperature, $T_c$ and have similar scaling functions below $T_c$, but different finite size scaling at $T_c$ to leading order in the system size. Through a simple self-consistent two loop calculation we derive the critical exponent for the condensate fraction, $2\beta\simeq 0.66$.Comment: 4 page

Vortex lattices in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates: modes and correlation functions

After delineating the physical regimes which vortex lattices encounter in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates as the rotation rate, $\Omega$, increases, we derive the normal modes of the vortex lattice in two dimensions at zero temperature. Taking into account effects of the finite compressibility, we find an inertial mode of frequency $\ge 2\Omega$, and a primarily transverse Tkachenko mode, whose frequency goes from being linear in the wave vector in the slowly rotating regime, where $\Omega$ is small compared with the lowest compressional mode frequency, to quadratic in the wave vector in the opposite limit. We calculate the correlation functions of vortex displacements and phase, density and superfluid velocities, and find that the zero-point excitations of the soft quadratic Tkachenko modes lead in a large system to a loss of long range phase correlations, growing logarithmically with distance, and hence lead to a fragmented state at zero temperature. The vortex positional ordering is preserved at zero temperature, but the thermally excited Tkachenko modes cause the relative positional fluctuations to grow logarithmically with separation at finite temperature. The superfluid density, defined in terms of the transverse velocity autocorrelation function, vanishes at all temperatures. Finally we construct the long wavelength single particle Green's function in the rotating system and calculate the condensate depletion as a function of temperature.Comment: 11 pages Latex, no figure

Density profiles of polarized Fermi gases confined in harmonic traps

On the basis of the phase diagram of the uniform system we calculate the density profiles of a trapped polarized Fermi gas at zero temperature using the local density approximation. By varying the overall polarization and the interaction strength we analyze the appearance of a discontinuity in the profile, signalling a first order phase transition from a superfluid inner core to a normal outer shell. The local population imbalance between the two components and the size of the various regions of the cloud corresponding to different phases are also discussed. The calculated profiles are quantitatively compared with the ones recently measured by Shin {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 101}, 070404 (2008).Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. We added references and modified the figure

Strong Interaction Dynamics from Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of Scale Invariance

Using the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking of scale invariance obtained from the dynamics of maximal rank field strengths, it is possible to spontaneously generate confining behavior. Introducing a dilaton field, the study of non trivial confining and de-confining transitions appears possible. This is manifest in two ways at least: One can consider bags which contain an unconfined phase in the internal region and a confined phase outside and also one obtains a simple model for deconfinement at high Temperature from the finite Temperature dynamics of the dilaton field.Comment: Latex, 5 pages, references added, few typos corrected and more consistent notation introduced. Final version to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett.

Color, Spin and Flavor Diffusion in Quark-Gluon Plasmas

In weakly interacting quark-gluon plasmas diffusion of color is found to be much slower than the diffusion of spin and flavor because color is easily exchanged by the gluons in the very singular forward scattering processes. If the infrared divergence is cut off by a magnetic mass, $m_{mag}\sim \alpha_sT$, the color diffusion is $D_{color}\sim (\alpha_s\ln(1/\alpha_s)T)^{-1}$, a factor $\alpha_s$ smaller than spin and flavor diffusion. A similar effect is expected in electroweak plasmas above $M_W$ due to $W^\pm$ exchanges. The color conductivity in quark-gluon plasmas and the electrical conductivity in electroweak plasmas are correspondingly small in relativistic heavy ion collisions and the very early universe.Comment: 5 pages, no figure

Hadron-quark continuity induced by the axial anomaly in dense QCD

We investigate the interplay between the chiral and diquark condensates on the basis of the Ginzburg-Landau potential with QCD symmetry. We demonstrate that the axial anomaly drives a new critical point at low temperature in the QCD phase diagram and leads to a smooth crossover between the hadronic and color superconducting phases.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of Quark Matter 2006 held in Shangha

Low Energy Dynamics in Ultradegenerate QCD Matter

We study the low energy behavior of QCD Green functions in the limit that the baryon chemical potential is much larger than the QCD scale parameter $\Lambda_QCD$. We show that there is a systematic low energy expansion in powers of $(\omega/m)^{1/3}$, where $\omega$ is the energy and $m$ is the screening scale. This expansion is valid even if the effective quark-gluon coupling $g$ is not small. The expansion is purely perturbative in the magnetic regime $|\vec{k}| \gg k_0$. If the external momenta and energies satisfy $k_0 \sim |\vec{k}|$, planar, abelian ladder diagrams involving the full quark propagator have to be resummed but the corresponding Dyson-Schwinger equations are closed.Comment: 4 pages, published versio

Spin-correlation functions in ultracold paired atomic-fermion systems: sum rules, self-consistent approximations, and mean fields

The spin response functions measured in multi-component fermion gases by means of rf transitions between hyperfine states are strongly constrained by the symmetry of the interatomic interactions. Such constraints are reflected in the spin f-sum rule that the response functions must obey. In particular, only if the effective interactions are not fully invariant in SU(2) spin space, are the response functions sensitive to mean field and pairing effects. We demonstrate, via a self-consistent calculation of the spin-spin correlation function within the framework of Hartree-Fock-BCS theory, how one can derive a correlation function explicitly obeying the f-sum rule. By contrast, simple one-loop approximations to the spin response functions do not satisfy the sum rule. As we show, the emergence of a second peak at higher frequency in the rf spectrum, as observed in a recent experiment in trapped $^6\text{Li}$, can be understood as the contribution from the paired fermions, with a shift of the peak from the normal particle response proportional to the square of the BCS pairing gap.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, content adde

Peierls substitution in the energy dispersion of a hexagonal lattice

The method of the Peierls substitution in studying the magnetic subband structure of a hexagonal lattice is re-examined. Several errors in the formalism of a couple of recent papers are pointed out and rectified so as to describe the effect of the magnetic field pertinently.Comment: 3 pages (two-columns), 2 EPS figures, submitted to J. Phys.: Condens. Matte

Tkachenko modes of vortex lattices in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

We calculate the in-plane modes of the vortex lattice in a rotating Bose condensate from the Thomas-Fermi to the mean-field quantum Hall regimes. The Tkachenko mode frequency goes from linear in the wavevector, $k$, for lattice rotational velocities, $\Omega$, much smaller than the lowest sound wave frequency in a finite system, to quadratic in $k$ in the opposite limit. The system also supports an inertial mode of frequency $\ge 2\Omega$. The calculated frequencies are in good agreement with recent observations of Tkachenko modes at JILA, and provide evidence for the decrease in the shear modulus of the vortex lattice at rapid rotation.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure