Bose Systems Research Articles

Critical Velocity of a Superfluid Bose Gas Flowing in a Random Potential

We investigate the critical velocity of a weakly interacting Bose gas flowing in a random potential. By applying the Bogoliubov theory to a disordered Bose system with a steady flow, we determine the critical velocity for weak and moderate disorder. We also calculate the superfluid density and the condensate density as a function of the disorder strength and the flow velocity, and their behaviors near the critical velocity are discussed.

Computation of local exchange coefficients in strongly interacting one-dimensional few-body systems: local density approximation and exact results

One-dimensional multi-component Fermi or Bose systems with strong zero-range interactions can be described in terms of local exchange coefficients and mapping the problem into a spin model is thus possible. For arbitrary external confining potentials the local exchanges are given by highly non-trivial geometric factors that depend solely on the geometry of the confinement through the single-particle eigenstates of the external potential. To obtain accurate effective Hamiltonians to describe such systems one needs to be able to compute these geometric factors with high precision which is difficult due to the computational complexity of the high-dimensional integrals involved. An approach using the local density approximation would therefore be a most welcome approximation due to its simplicity. Here we assess the accuracy of the local density approximation by going beyond the simple harmonic oscillator that has been the focus of previous studies and consider some double-wells of current experimental interest. We find that the local density approximation works quite well as long as the potentials resemble harmonic wells but break down for larger barriers. In order to explore the consequences of applying the local density approximation in a concrete setup we consider quantum state transfer in the effective spin models that one obtains. Here we find that even minute deviations in the local exchange coefficients between the exact and the local density approximation can induce large deviations in the fidelity of state transfer for four, five, and six particles.

Erratum: “Thermodynamics of noninteracting bosonic gases in cubic optical lattices versus ideal homogeneous Bose gases”

We have studied the thermodynamic properties of noninteracting gases in periodic lattice potential at arbitrary integer fillings and compared them with that of ideal homogeneous gases. By deriving explicit expressions for the thermodynamic quantities and performing exact numerical calculations, we have found that the dependence of e.g., entropy and energy on the temperature in the normal phase is rather weak especially at large filling factors. In the Bose condensed phase, their power dependence on the reduced temperature is nearly linear, which is in contrast to that of ideal homogeneous gases. We evaluated the discontinuity in the slope of the specific heat which turned out to be approximately the same as that of the ideal homogeneous Bose (IHB) gas for filling factor ν = 1. The discontinuity i.e. the jump in the heat capacity per particle linearly decreases with increasing ν. These results may serve as a checkpoint for various experiments on optical lattices as well as theoretical studies of weakly interacting Bose systems in periodic potentials being a starting point for perturbative calculations.

Dipolar bilayer with antiparallel polarization: A self-bound liquid

Dipolar bilayers with antiparallel polarization, i.e. opposite polarization in the two layers, exhibit liquid-like rather than gas-like behavior. In particular, even without external pressure a self-bound liquid puddle of constant density will form. We investigate the symmetric case of two identical layers, corresponding to a two-component Bose system with equal partial densities. The zero-temperature equation of state $E(\rho)/N$, where $\rho$ is the total density, has a minimum, with an equilibrium density that decreases with increasing distance between the layers. The attraction necessary for a self-bound liquid comes from the inter-layer dipole-dipole interaction that leads to a mediated intra-layer attraction. We investigate the regime of negative pressure towards the spinodal instability, where the bilayer is unstable against infinitesimal fluctuations of the total density, conformed by calculations of the speed of sound of total density fluctuations.

Supersymmetry of the solution to the master equation between two-level atom and laser channel

We propose a new Ket-Bra entangled state (KBES) method to solve the master equation of finite-level system. The KBES method can convert the master equation into Schrdinger-like equation which is easier to solve than the master equation, and Schrdinger equation in a certain form can also be used to solve the Schrdinger-like equation. Thus the KBES method has a wider application range. In the paper, we mainly study the master equation of the two-level atom. The corresponding master equation is solved by the KBES method, and for the first time we obtain the opera-sum solution of the atom. Furthermore, we compare this result with the well known solution that describes the laser channel. There is much analogousness between both opera-sum solutions, which show that there is some supersymmetry between Bose creation-annihilation operator and upper-down transition operators of atom. Finally, we further analyze the supersymmetry between the bose and atom system, and find that the spin-up and spin-down operator can be represented by the creation and annihilation operator repectively, which can be achieved in infinite ways. It is easy to understand that the bose operator is infinite-level while the spin operator is two-level, thus the creation-annihilation operator is super-complete for the spin operator. Thus the representation is not unique, and all of this directly shows and proves the supersymmetry.

Quantum phase diagram and time-of-flight absorption pictures of an ultracold Bose system in a square optical superlattice

In this letter, by the use of the generalized effective potential theory, with the help of the process chain approach under the framework of the Kato formulation of the perturbation expansion, we calculate out the quantum phase diagram up to the 8th order for an ultracold Bose system in a square optical superlattice. Based on these perturbative data, with the help of the linear fit extrapolation technique, more accurate results are obtained, which are in excellent agreement with recent Monte Carlo numerical results. Moreover, by employing the generalized re-summed Green's function method and cumulant expansion, the momentum distribution function of the system is also calculated analytically and the time-of-flight absorption pictures of the system are plotted.

Coordinated wave function for the ground state of liquidHe4

We present a variational ansatz for the ground state of a strongly correlated Bose system. This ansatz goes beyond the Jastrow-Feenberg functional form and explicitly enforces coordination shells in the structure of the wavefunction. We apply this ansatz to liquid helium-4 with a simple three-variable parametrization of the pair functions. The optimized wavefunction is found to give an excellent description of the mid-range correlations in the fluid. We also demonstrate the possibility to use this ansatz to study inhomogeneous systems. The phase separation and free surface emerge naturally in this wavefunction, even though it is constructed of short-range two-body functions and does not contain one-body terms. Because no explicit description of the surface is necessary, this provides a powerful description tool for cluster states.

Perturbation Theory for Superfluid in Nonuniform Potential

Perturbation theory of superfluid fraction in terms of nonuniform potential is constructed. We find that the coefficient of the leading term is determined by the dynamical structure factor or density fluctuation of the system. The results for the ideal Bose gas and the interacting Bose system with linear dispersion are consistent to implications from Landau’s criterion. We also find that the superfluidity of Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid with \(K>2\) is shown to be stable against nonuniform potential.

The particle flow oscillations of rotating non-interacting gases in a two-dimensional harmonic trap

The spatial distribution of particle flow and atomic density of the two-dimensional, harmonically trapped, ideal atomic gases in synthetic magnetic field and rotating frame are systematically investigated in various regimes of temperature. The magnetization and particle flow of rotating fermions exhibit a de Haas–van Alphen-like oscillation at relatively low temperature. This phenomenon is analogous to the quantum oscillation of orbital magnetism and current in confined electron system. An elaborate comparison with Bose system is also proposed.

Quantum impurity in a one-dimensional trapped Bose gas

We present a new theoretical framework for describing an impurity in a trapped Bose system in one spatial dimension. The theory handles any external confinement, arbitrary mass ratios, and a weak interaction may be included between the Bose particles. To demonstrate our technique, we calculate the ground state energy and properties of a sample system with eight bosons and find an excellent agreement with numerically exact results. Our theory can thus provide definite predictions for experiments in cold atomic gases.

Preparation of topological modes by Lyapunov control.

By Lyapunov control, we present a proposal to drive quasi-particles into a topological mode in quantum systems described by a quadratic Hamiltonian. The merit of this control is the individual manipulations on the boundary sites. We take the Kitaev’s chain as an illustration for Fermi systems and show that an arbitrary excitation mode can be steered into the Majorana zero mode by manipulating the chemical potential of the boundary sites. For Bose systems, taking the noninteracting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model as an example, we illustrate how to drive the system into the edge mode. The sensitivity of the fidelity to perturbations and uncertainties in the control fields and initial modes is also examined. The experimental feasibility of the proposal and the possibility to replace the continuous control field with square wave pulses is finally discussed.

Thermodynamics of noninteracting bosonic gases in cubic optical lattices versus ideal homogeneous Bose gases

We have studied the thermodynamic properties of noninteracting gases in periodic lattice potential at arbitrary integer fillings and compared them with that of ideal homogeneous gases. By deriving explicit expressions for the thermodynamic quantities and performing exact numerical calculations, we have found that the dependence of e.g., entropy and energy on the temperature in the normal phase is rather weak especially at large filling factors. In the Bose condensed phase, their power dependence on the reduced temperature is nearly linear, which is in contrast to that of ideal homogeneous gases. We evaluated the discontinuity in the slope of the specific heat which turned out to be approximately the same as that of the ideal homogeneous Bose (IHB) gas for filling factor ν = 1. The discontinuity i.e. the jump in the heat capacity per particle linearly decreases with increasing ν. These results may serve as a checkpoint for various experiments on optical lattices as well as theoretical studies of weakly interacting Bose systems in periodic potentials being a starting point for perturbative calculations.

Quantum magnetism in strongly interacting one-dimensional spinor Bose systems.

Strongly interacting one-dimensional quantum systems often behave in a manner that is distinctly different from their higher-dimensional counterparts. When a particle attempts to move in a one-dimensional environment it will unavoidably have to interact and ‘push’ other particles in order to execute a pattern of motion, irrespective of whether the particles are fermions or bosons. A present frontier in both theory and experiment are mixed systems of different species and/or particles with multiple internal degrees of freedom. Here we consider trapped two-component bosons with short-range inter-species interactions much larger than their intra-species interactions and show that they have novel energetic and magnetic properties. In the strongly interacting regime, these systems have energies that are fractions of the basic harmonic oscillator trap quantum and have spatially separated ground states with manifestly ferromagnetic wave functions. Furthermore, we predict excited states that have perfect antiferromagnetic ordering. This holds for both balanced and imbalanced systems, and we show that it is a generic feature as one crosses from few- to many-body systems.

Exact canonically conjugate momenta approach to a one-dimensional neutron–proton system, I

Introducing collective variables, a collective description of nuclear surface oscillations has been developed with the first-quantized language, contrary to the second-quantized one in Sunakawa's approach for a Bose system. It overcomes difficulties remaining in the traditional theories of nuclear collective motions: Collective momenta are not exact canonically conjugate to collective coordinates and are not independent. On the contrary to such a description, Tomonaga first gave the basic idea to approach elementary excitations in a one-dimensional Fermi system. The Sunakawa's approach for a Fermi system is also expected to work well for such a problem. In this paper, on the isospin space, we define a density operator and further following Tomonaga, introduce a collective momentum. We propose an exact canonically momenta approach to a one-dimensional neutron–proton (N–P) system under the use of the Grassmann variables.

Upper bound of one-magnon excitation and lower bound of effective mass for ferromagnetic spinor Bose and Fermi gases

Using a variational method, we derive an exact upper bound for one-magnon excitation energy in ferromagnetic spinor gases, which limits the quantum corrections to the effective mass of a magnon to be positive. We also derive an upper bound for one-magnon excitation energy in lattice systems. The results hold for both Bose and Fermi systems in $d$ dimensions as long as the interaction is local and invariant under spin rotation.

Typical observables in a two-mode Bose system

A class of k-particle observables in a two-mode system of Bose particles is characterized by typicality: if the state of the system is sampled out of a suitable ensemble, an experimental measurement of that observable yields (almost) always the same result. We investigate the general features of typical observables, the criteria to determine typicality and finally focus on the case of density correlation functions, which are related to spatial distribution of particles and interference.

Energy fluctuation and discontinuity of specific heat

The specific heat per particle (cv) of an ideal gas, on many occasions, is interpreted as energy fluctuation per particle (▵ϵ2) of the ideal gas through the relation ▵ϵ2 = kT2cv, where k is the Boltzmann constant and T is the temperature. This relationship is true only in the classical limit and deviates significantly in the quantum degenerate regime. We have analytically explored quantum to classical crossover of this relationship, in particular, for 3D free Bose and Fermi gases. We have explored the same for harmonically trapped cases. We have obtained a hump of around its condensation point for 3D harmonically trapped Bose gas. We have discussed the possibility of an occurring phase transition with the discontinuity of heat capacity from the existence of such a hump for other Bose and Fermi systems.

Unveiling the thermal entanglement in a mixed-spin XXZ model with Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction under a homogeneous magnetic field

We analytically investigate the thermal entanglement of three-mixed-spin (1/2, 1, 1/2) XXZ model with the DM interaction under an external magnetic field B. Two different cases are considered: one subsystem (1/2, 1/2) consists of two spin-1/2 fermions and the other subsystem (1/2, 1) contains a spin-1/2 fermion and a spin-1 boson. It is shown that the DM interaction parameter D, the external magnetic field strength B and coupling constant J have different effects on Fermi and mixed Fermi–Bose systems. All of the factors mentioned above can be utilized to control entanglement switch of any two particles in mixed spins model.

The Phase Transition Model for Heat-Shrinkable Thermo-Sensitive Hydrogels Based on Interaction Energy

AbstractA biphase mixture continuum mechanics model is derived for neutral heat-shrinkable thermo-sensitive hydrogels in this paper. The mixing free energy of the special mixture is recalculated based on the partition function of Bose system, and it evaluates the contribution of the hydrophilic, hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen bonding to the volume phase transition behaviors. The ideas of the Flory lattice theory and the UNIFAC group contribution method are employed to get the expression of the mixing free energy. Then we deduce a particular model by combining this mixing free energy with the conservation laws equations and constitutive relations of both phases to predict the volume transition behaviors of these special hydrogels.

Thermodynamics of Ideal Bose Gas Under Generic Power Law Potential in $d$-dimensions

Thermodynamic properties of ideal Bose gas trapped in an external generic power law potential are investigated systematically from the grand thermodynamic potential in $d$ dimensional space. The most general conditions for Bose-Einstein condensate and the discontinuous conditions of heat capacity at the critical temperature in presence of generic power law potential are presented in this manuscript. The dependence of the physical quantities on external potential, particle characteristics and space dimensionality are discussed. The more general results obtained in this paper presents an unified illustration of Bose-Einstein condensation of ideal Bose systems as they reduces to the expressions and conclusions available in the literature with appropiate choice of power law exponent.