108 research outputs found
Interplay between hydrodynamics and jets
By combining the jet quenching Monte Carlo JEWEL with a realistic
hydrodynamic model for the background we investigate the sensitivity of jet
observables to details of the medium model and quantify the influence of the
energy and momentum lost by jets on the background evolution. On the level of
event averaged source terms the effects are small and are caused mainly by the
momentum transfer.Comment: poceedings of the XXIV Quark Matter conference (2014
Exact flow equation for composite operators
We propose an exact flow equation for composite operators and their
correlation functions. This can be used for a scale-dependent partial
bosonization or "flowing bosonization" of fermionic interactions, or for an
effective change of degrees of freedom in dependence on the momentum scale. The
flow keeps track of the scale dependent relation between effective composite
fields and corresponding composite operators in terms of the fundamental
fields.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, minor changes, published versio
Quantum phase transition in Bose-Fermi mixtures
We study a quantum Bose-Fermi mixture near a broad Feshbach resonance at zero
temperature. Within a quantum field theoretical model a two-step Gaussian
approximation allows to capture the main features of the quantum phase diagram.
We show that a repulsive boson-boson interaction is necessary for thermodynamic
stability. The quantum phase diagram is mapped in chemical potential and
density space, and both first and second order quantum phase transitions are
found. We discuss typical characteristics of the first order transition, such
as hysteresis or a droplet formation of the condensate which may be searched
for experimentally.Comment: 16 pages, 17 figures; typos corrected, one figure adde
Efimov physics from the functional renormalization group
Few-body physics related to the Efimov effect is discussed using the
functional renormalization group method. After a short review of
renormalization in its modern formulation we apply this formalism to the
description of scattering and bound states in few-body systems of identical
bosons and distinguishable fermions with two and three components. The Efimov
effect leads to a limit cycle in the renormalization group flow. Recently
measured three-body loss rates in an ultracold Fermi gas Li atoms are
explained within this framework. We also discuss briefly the relation to the
many-body physics of the BCS-BEC crossover for two-component fermions and the
formation of a trion phase for the case of three species.Comment: 28 pages, 13 figures, invited contribution to a special issue of
"Few-Body Systems" devoted to Efimov physics, published versio
Functional renormalization for trion formation in ultracold fermion gases
The energy spectrum for three species of identical fermionic atoms close to a
Feshbach resonance is computed by use of a nonperturbative flow equation.
Already a simple truncation shows that for large scattering length the
lowest energy state is a "trion" (or trimer) bound state of three atoms. At the
location of the resonance, for , we find an infinite set of
trimer bound states, with exponentially decreasing binding energy. This feature
was pointed out by Efimov. It arises from limit cycle scaling, which also leads
to a periodic dependence of the three body scattering coupling on .
Extending our findings by continuity to nonzero density and temperature we find
that a "trion phase" separates a BEC and a BCS phase, with interesting quantum
phase transitions for T=0.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, minor changes, reference adde
Efimov effect from functional renormalization
We apply a field-theoretic functional renormalization group technique to the
few-body (vacuum) physics of non-relativistic atoms near a Feshbach resonance.
Three systems are considered: one-component bosons with U(1) symmetry,
two-component fermions with U(1)\times SU(2) symmetry and three-component
fermions with U(1) \times SU(3) symmetry. We focus on the scale invariant
unitarity limit for infinite scattering length. The exact solution for the
two-body sector is consistent with the unitary fixed point behavior for all
considered systems. Nevertheless, the numerical three-body solution in the
s-wave sector develops a limit cycle scaling in case of U(1) bosons and SU(3)
fermions. The Efimov parameter for the one-component bosons and the
three-component fermions is found to be approximately s=1.006, consistent with
the result of Efimov.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, minor changes, published versio
Exact flow equation for bound states
We develop a formalism to describe the formation of bound states in quantum
field theory using an exact renormalization group flow equation. As a concrete
example we investigate a nonrelativistic field theory with instantaneous
interaction where the flow equations can be solved exactly. However, the
formalism is more general and can be applied to relativistic field theories, as
well. We also discuss expansion schemes that can be used to find approximate
solutions of the flow equations including the essential momentum dependence.Comment: 22 pages, references added, published versio
Functional renormalization for Bose-Einstein Condensation
We investigate Bose-Einstein condensation for interacting bosons at zero and
nonzero temperature. Functional renormalization provides us with a consistent
method to compute the effect of fluctuations beyond the Bogoliubov
approximation. For three dimensional dilute gases, we find an upper bound on
the scattering length a which is of the order of the microphysical scale -
typically the range of the Van der Waals interaction. In contrast to fermions
near the unitary bound, no strong interactions occur for bosons with
approximately pointlike interactions, thus explaining the high quantitative
reliability of perturbation theory for most quantities. For zero temperature we
compute the quantum phase diagram for bosonic quasiparticles with a general
dispersion relation, corresponding to an inverse microphysical propagator with
terms linear and quadratic in the frequency. We compute the temperature
dependence of the condensate and particle density n, and find for the critical
temperature T_c a deviation from the free theory, Delta T_c/T_c = 2.1 a
n^{1/3}. For the sound velocity at zero temperature we find very good agreement
with the Bogoliubov result, such that it may be used to determine the particle
density accurately.Comment: 21 pages, 16 figures. Reference adde
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