~6Li超冷费米气体窄Feshbach共振的实验研究

我们通过精确锁定Feshbach共振线圈中的电流,获得了稳定度接近10-5的Feshbach共振磁场。利用RF射频谱和原子共振损失谱精确地测量了超冷6 Li费米原子气体的窄Feshbach共振,研究了该Feshbach共振的相互作用和原子气体的能量依靠关系,测量了原子内态相互作用和密度所导致的射频跃迁的散射碰撞频移。这种能量依靠的相互作用的费米原子气体具有重要的意义,可以产生新奇的超流,用来模拟中子星物质的态方程。     

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚领域Feshbach共振现象研究进展

Feshbach共振现象是当前玻色一爱因斯坦凝聚领域中的一个研究热点．目前在大多数低温碱金属原子气体里都已观测到Feshbach共振现象．在实验里利用Feshbach共振可以任意改变这些系统中原子之间的相互作用强度，从强相互排斥作用到强相互吸引作用都可以实现．文章详细介绍Feshbach共振现象以及目前它在原子气体系统里的最重要的两个应用，研究费米子气体里的超流态和有强相互作用的玻色子气体．     

轨道Feshbach共振附近类碱土金属原子的杂质态问题

近年来,碱土金属原子和类碱土金属原子体系的研究成为冷原子物理的研究热点之一.特别是最近在~(173)Yb原子中发现的轨道Feshbach共振,使得研究有强相互作用的碱土金属和类碱土金属原子系统成为可能,极大扩展了此类原子体系的研究范围.本文介绍了~(173)Yb费米气体在轨道Feshbach共振附近的杂质态问题.在此问题中,位于~3P0态的杂质原子与处于基态的背景费米海相互作用,并在费米海表面产生分子态或极化子态.本文使用试探波函数的研究方法,首先对分子态和吸引极化子态进行介绍,并重点描述了分子态与吸引极化子态间的转变.其次归纳总结了排斥极化子态的相关性质,如有效质量、衰变率等.然后考虑双费米面情况,介绍在闭通道中引入另外一个费米面对系统产生的影响.最后简要介绍二维~(173)Yb费米气体中的杂质态问题.     

费米原子对的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚

通过磁场可以用原子散射的Feshbach共振来调节原子间的相互作用，使之成为排斥或吸引，以及改变作用的强度，运用这个方法可以使费米原子形成分子，也可以在多体作用下形成费米原子配对，在温度够低的条件下可以得到分子的BEC以及原子配对的凝聚体，这些现象在实验室中的实现是2004年物理学的重要成就之一，本文对此给予简短的评述。     

BCS-BEC渡越过程超流费米气体在线性变化势中的集体激发

基于超流流体力学方程组和标度理论,数值研究了Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS)-Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC)渡越过程中超流费米气体在线性减小谐振子势下的集体激发.详细研究了包括谐振子势频率线性减小的速度,减小到的幅度以及势阱各向异性参数对集体激发的影响.通过频谱分析和数据拟合,分别研究了各向同性势和各向异性势下在最小振幅激发下所对应的模式,且数值计算得到的频率值在整个BCS-BEC渡越过程中与前期的理论结果符合得很好.该工作可以为后面超流费米气体集体激发的实验提供有益的理论参考     

超冷费米原子气中超流发生的确凿证据

最近，恰好在玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚（BEC）实现10年之后，美国麻省理工-哈佛超冷原子研究中心的Zwierlein等（由Ketterle W领导的小组）首次在超冷^6 Li费米原子气中看到了超流的确凿证据——由涡旋构成的Abrikosov晶格（这类品格，此前已经在旋转的BEC中和超导体中被观察）．这一进展被认为是继BEC之后的又一重大进展．     

费米-费米散射长度对费米超流气体在幺正极限区域的隧穿现象影响

运用双势阱模型通过调节费米-费米散射长度研究了超流费米气体在幺正极限区域的隧穿现象. 研究发现费米-费米散射长度对量子隧穿效应有显著的影响. 在确定的区域, 可以得到在双势阱中完全的量子隧穿现象, 而在另一些区域, 这种隧穿就完全消失. 由于在实验室中超流费米气体的散射长度是可以调节的, 所以在实验上可以实现通过调节散射长度来控制超流费米气体的宏观隧穿现象.     

~6Li超冷费米气体宽Feshbach共振散射的动力学演化研究

本文解析研究了~6Li超冷费米气体宽Feshbach共振散射动力学演化过程,将整个散射过程转化为一个单重态和一系列准连续态的散射共振,等效于涉及接触势的散射过程,在原子波包的持续时间内,束缚态中不断地出现原子布居,并将输入的波包非弹性散射到与之耦合的所有通道中。随着相互作用时间的增加,布居数转移幅度越来越大,连续态和束缚态之间的散射概率逐步增加,最终达到碰撞稳态。同时我们定量的计算了在原子散射过程中连续态和束缚态的动力学演化,在散射过程中连续态和束缚态的总概率守恒,连续态和束缚态之间布局数交换发生在散射共振前后的数十纳秒时间内。     

超冷费米气体的膨胀动力学研究新进展

多体系统的非平衡动力学演化是当前物理学中最具挑战性的问题之一.超冷量子费米原子气体具有较强的可控性,是研究多体非平衡动力学的理想系统,可以用来模拟和理解大爆炸后的早期宇宙、重离子碰撞中产生的夸克-胶子以及核物理等动力学.一般多体系统演化是非常复杂的,往往需要利用对称性来研究.利用Feshbach共振可以制备标度不变的费米原子气体:无相互作用和幺正费米量子气体.当远离平衡态时,可利用普适的指数和函数来刻画,其动力学可以通过对系统的时空演化进行标度变换来识别.本文主要介绍近年来强相互作用超冷费米气体的膨胀动力学研究进展,包括原子气体的各向异性展开、标度动力学和Efimovian膨胀动力学.     

一维强相互作用极化费米子的相图

文章首先简要评述了目前强相互作用的极化冷费米原子体系的研究现状.在三维,人们对该体系基态存在着不同认识.为对这个问题有进一步了解,文章探讨了一维强相互作用极化费米气体.在均匀情况下,这是一个可积系统,可以得到该体系的一个严格相图.作者发现了一种非均匀的超流相在相空间占主导地位.在有外加束缚势的实验情况下,通过局域密度泛函近似,作者发现了两种新颖的相分离相.     

BCS-BEC crossover in a gas of Fermi atoms with a p-wave feshbach resonance

We investigate unconventional superfluidity in a gas of Fermi atoms with an anisotropic p-wave Feshbach resonance. Including the p-wave Feshbach resonance as well as the associated three kinds of quasimolecules with finite orbital angular momenta Lz=+/-1,0, we calculate the transition temperature of the superfluid phase. As one passes through the p-wave Feshbach resonance, we find the usual BCS-BEC crossover phenomenon. The p-wave BCS state continuously changes into the BEC of bound molecules with L=1. Our calculation includes the effect of fluctuations associated with Cooper pairs and molecules which are not Bose condensed.     

BCS-BEC crossover in a gas of Fermi atoms with a Feshbach resonance

We discuss the BCS-BEC crossover in a degenerate Fermi gas of two hyperfine states interacting close to a Feshbach resonance. We show that, by including fluctuation contributions to the free energy similar to that considered by Nozières and Schmitt-Rink, the character of the superfluid phase transition continuously changes from the BCS-type to the BEC-type, as the threshold of the quasimolecular band is lowered. In the BEC regime, the superfluid phase transition is interpreted in terms of molecules associated with both the Feshbach resonance and Cooper pairing.     

Evolution from BCS to BEC superfluidity in p-wave Fermi gases

We consider the evolution of superfluid properties of a three-dimensional p-wave Fermi gas from a weak coupling Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) to strong coupling Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) limit as a function of scattering volume. At zero temperature, we show that a quantum phase transition occurs for p-wave systems, unlike the s-wave case where the BCS to BEC evolution is just a crossover. Near the critical temperature, we derive a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory and show that the GL coherence length is generally anisotropic due to the p-wave nature of the order parameter, and becomes isotropic only in the BEC limit.     

Unitarity Schrödinger Equation and Ground State Properties of the Finite Trapped Superfluid Fermi Gases in a BCS-BEC Crossover

On the basis of quantum hydrodynamical equations we derive a unitarity Schrödinger equation of a finite trapped superfluid Fermi gas valid in the whole interaction regime from BCS superfluid to BEC. This equation is just the Ginzburg-Laudau-type equation for the fermionic Cooper pairs in the BCS side, the Gross-Pitaevskii-type equation for the bosonic dimers in the BEC side, and a unitarity equation for a strongly interacting Fermi superfluid in the unitarity limit. By taking a modified Gauss-like trial wave function, we solve the unitarity Schrödinger equation, calculate the energy, chemical potential, sizes and profiles of the ground-state condensate, and discuss the properties of the ground state in the entire BCS-BEC crossover regimes.     

Tunneling and Self-Trapping of Superfluid Fermi Gases in BCS-BEC Crossover

We investigate tunneling and self-trapping of superfluid Fermi gases under a two-mode ansatz in different regimes of the crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superfluid to Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). Starting from a generalized equation of state, we derive the coupled equations of relative atom-pair number and relative phase about superfluid Fermi gases in a double-well system and then classify the different oscillation behaviors by the
tunneling strength and interactions between atoms. Tunneling and self-trapping behaviors are considered in the whole BCS-BEC crossover in the case of a symmetric double-well potential. We show that the nonlinear interaction between atoms makes the self-trapping more easily realized in BCS regime than in the BEC regime and stability analysis is also given.     

Collective excitations of a degenerate gas at the BEC-BCS crossover

We study collective excitation modes of a fermionic gas of (6)Li atoms in the BEC-BCS crossover regime. While measurements of the axial compression mode in the cigar-shaped trap close to a Feshbach resonance confirm theoretical expectations, the radial compression mode shows surprising features. In the strongly interacting molecular BEC regime, we observe a negative frequency shift with increasing coupling strength. In the regime of a strongly interacting Fermi gas, an abrupt change in the collective excitation frequency occurs, which may be a signature for a transition from a superfluid to a collisionless phase.     

Condensate fraction of asymmetric three-component Fermi gas

In this paper, we investigate the condensate fraction （CF） of fermionic pairs in the BCS-BEC crossover for three- component Fermi gas with both asymmetric interactions and unequal chemical potentials in two-dimensional free space. By using the functional-path-integral method, we have analytically derived the number densities and bound-state energy, from which the off-diagonal long-range order is analyzed in terms of the asymptotic behavior of the two-body density matrix. The explicit formula of CF is obtained as a function of the bound-state energy and population imbalance. It is demonstrated that the CF spectrum with respect to the bound-state energy can be used to characterize the quantum phase transition between the two kinds of Sarma phases as well as the transition from three-component to two-component superfluid. Moreover we obtain the same analytic formula of CF in the BCS superfluid phase as that of homogeneous Fermi gas with equal chemical potentials.     

Swallowtail band structure of the superfluid Fermi gas in an optical lattice

We investigate the energy band structure of the superfluid flow of ultracold dilute Fermi gases in a one-dimensional optical lattice along the BCS to Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) crossover within a mean-field approach. In each side of the crossover region, a loop structure (swallowtail) appears in the Bloch energy band of the superfluid above a critical value of the interaction strength. The width of the swallowtail is largest near unitarity. Across the critical value of the interaction strength, the profiles of density and pairing field change more drastically in the BCS side than in the BEC side. It is found that along with the appearance of the swallowtail, there exists a narrow band in the quasiparticle energy spectrum close to the chemical potential, and the incompressibility of the Fermi gas consequently experiences a profound dip in the BCS side, unlike in the BEC side.     

Quantum phase transitions across a p-wave Feshbach resonance

We study a single-species polarized Fermi gas tuned across a narrow p-wave Feshbach resonance. We show that in the course of a Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC)-BCS crossover, the system can undergo a magnetic-field-tuned quantum phase transition from a px-wave to a px+ipy-wave superfluid. The latter state, that spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry, furthermore undergoes a topological px+ipy to px+ipy transition at zero chemical potential mu. In two dimensions, for mu > 0 it is characterized by a Pfaffian ground state exhibiting topological order and non-Abelian excitations familiar from fractional quantum Hall systems.     

Vortex lattices in a rotating Fermi superfluid in the BCS–BEC crossover with many Landau levels

We present an explicit analytical analysis of the ground state of vortex lattice structure, based on a minimization of the generalized Gross–Pitaevskii energy functional in a trapped rotating Fermi superfluid gas. By a Bogoliubov-like transformation we find that the coarse-grained average of the atomic density varies as inverted parabola in three dimensional cases; the Fermi superfluid in the BEC regime enters into the lowest Landau level at fast rotation, in which the vortices form an almost regular triangular lattice over a central region and the vortex lattice is expanded along the radial direction in the outer region; the fluid in the unitarity and BCS regimes occupies many low-lying Landau levels, in which a trapped gas with a triangular vortex lattice has a superfluid core surrounded by a normal gas. The calculation is qualitatively consistent with recent numerical and experimental data both in the vortex lattice structure and vortex numbers and in the density profiles versus the stirring frequency in the whole BCS–BEC crossover.