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Phase separation in optical lattices in a spin-dependent external potential
We investigate the phase separation in one-dimensional Fermi gases on optical
lattices. The density distributions and the magnetization are calculated by
means of density-matrix renormalization method. The phase separation between
spin-up and spin-down atoms is induced by the interplay of the spin-dependent
harmonic confinement and the strong repulsive interaction between
intercomponent fermions. We find the existence of a critical repulsive
interaction strength above which the phase separation evolves. By increasing
the trap imbalance, the composite phase of Mott-insulating core is changed into
the one of ferromagnetic insulating core, which is incompressible and
originates from the Pauli exclusion principle.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Lattice density functional theory at finite temperature with strongly density-dependent exchange-correlation potentials
The derivative discontinuity of the exchange-correlation (xc) energy at
integer particle number is a property of the exact, unknown xc functional of
density functional theory (DFT) which is absent in many popular local and
semilocal approximations. In lattice DFT, approximations exist which exhibit a
discontinuity in the xc potential at half filling. However, due to convergence
problems of the Kohn-Sham (KS) self-consistency cycle, the use of these
functionals is mostly restricted to situations where the local density is away
from half filling. Here a numerical scheme for the self-consistent solution of
the lattice KS Hamiltonian with a local xc potential with rapid (or
quasi-discontinuous) density dependence is suggested. The problem is formulated
in terms of finite-temperature DFT where the discontinuity in the xc potential
emerges naturally in the limit of zero temperature. A simple parametrization is
suggested for the xc potential of the uniform 1D Hubbard model at finite
temperature which is obtained from the solution of the thermodynamic Bethe
ansatz. The feasibility of the numerical scheme is demonstrated by application
to a model of fermionic atoms in a harmonic trap. The corresponding density
profile exhibits a plateau of integer occupation at low temperatures which
melts away for higher temperatures.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figure
Dimensionless ratios: characteristics of quantum liquids and their phase transitions
Dimensionless ratios of physical properties can characterize low-temperature
phases in a wide variety of materials. As such, the Wilson ratio (WR), the
Kadowaki-Woods ratio and the Wiedemann\--Franz law capture essential features
of Fermi liquids in metals, heavy fermions, etc. Here we prove that the phases
of many-body interacting multi-component quantum liquids in one dimension (1D)
can be described by WRs based on the compressibility, susceptibility and
specific heat associated with each component. These WRs arise due to additivity
rules within subsystems reminiscent of the rules for multi-resistor networks in
series and parallel --- a novel and useful characteristic of multi-component
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids (TLL) independent of microscopic details of the
systems. Using experimentally realised multi-species cold atomic gases as
examples, we prove that the Wilson ratios uniquely identify phases of TLL,
while providing universal scaling relations at the boundaries between phases.
Their values within a phase are solely determined by the stiffnesses and sound
velocities of subsystems and identify the internal degrees of freedom of said
phase such as its spin-degeneracy. This finding can be directly applied to a
wide range of 1D many-body systems and reveals deep physical insights into
recent experimental measurements of the universal thermodynamics in ultracold
atoms and spins.Comment: 12 pages (main paper), (6 figures
Detection of a methanol megamaser in a major-merger galaxy
We have detected emission from both the 4_{-1}-3_{0} E (36.2~GHz) class I and
7_{-2}-8_{-1} E (37.7~GHz) class II methanol transitions towards the centre of
the closest ultra-luminous infrared galaxy Arp 220. The emission in both the
methanol transitions show narrow spectral features and have luminosities
approximately 8 orders of magnitude stronger than that observed from typical
class I methanol masers observed in Galactic star formation regions. The
emission is also orders of magnitude stronger than the expected intensity of
thermal emission from these transitions and based on these findings we suggest
that the emission from the two transitions are masers. These observations
provides the first detection of a methanol megamaser in the 36.2 and 37.7 GHz
transitions and represents only the second detection of a methanol megamaser,
following the recent report of an 84 GHz methanol megamaser in NGC1068. We find
the methanol megamasers are significantly offset from the nuclear region and
arise towards regions where there is Ha emission, suggesting that it is
associated with starburst activity. The high degree of correlation between the
spatial distribution of the 36.2 GHz methanol and X-ray plume emission suggests
that the production of strong extragalactic class I methanol masers is related
to galactic outflow driven shocks and perhaps cosmic rays. In contrast to OH
and H2O megamasers which originate close to the nucleus, methanol megamasers
provide a new probe of feedback (e.g. outflows) processes on larger-scales and
of star formation beyond the circumnuclear starburst regions of active
galaxies.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Superconducting valence bond fluid in lightly doped 8-leg - cylinders
Superconductivity in doped quantum paramagnets has been a subject of long
theoretical inquiry. In this work we report a density matrix renormalization
group study of lightly doped - models on the square lattice (doped hole
densities and 1/8) with parameters for which previous studies
have suggested that the undoped system in 2D is either a quantum spin liquid or
a valence bond crystal. Our studies are performed on cylinders with width up to
8. Ground-state correlations are found to be nearly identical for the ``doped
quantum spin liquid'' and ``doped valence bond crystal''. Upon increasing the
cylinder width from 4 to 8, we observed a significant strengthening of the
quasi-long-range superconducting correlations, and a dramatic suppression of
any ``competing'' charge-density-wave order. Extrapolating from the observed
behavior of the width 8 cylinders, we speculate that the system has a nodeless
d-wave superconducting ground-state in the 2D limit.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures and 1 tabl
Control of non-controllable quantum systems: A quantum control algorithm based on Grover iteration
A new notion of controllability, eigenstate controllability, is defined for
finite-dimensional bilinear quantum mechanical systems which are neither
strongly completely controllably nor completely controllable. And a quantum
control algorithm based on Grover iteration is designed to perform a quantum
control task of steering a system, which is eigenstate controllable but may not
be (strongly) completely controllable, from an arbitrary state to a target
state.Comment: 7 pages, no figures, submitte
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