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.

Recent progress of expansion dynamics in strongly-interacting ultracold Fermi gases

The evolution of non-equilibrium dynamic for many-body systems is one of the most challenging problems in physics. Ultra-cold quantum atomic Fermi gas provide an test-bed for studying many-body non-equilibrium dynamics due to its high freedom of controllability, which can be used to simulate and understand the dynamics of the early universe after the Big Bang, quark-gluon produced in heavy ion collisions and nuclear physics. Generally, the evolution of many-body systems is very complex, and usually needs to be studied by symmetry. Feshbach resonance can be used to prepare scale invariant atomic Fermi gases: non-interacting and unitary Fermi gases. When far away from equilibrium state, universal exponents and functions can be used to characterize the dynamics of the system, which can be identified by scaling the temporal and spatial evolution of the system. In this review, the recent developments in the expansion dynamics of strongly interacting ultracold Fermi gases are introduced, including the anisotropic expansion of atomic gases, scaling dynamics and Efimovian expansion dynamics.