Bose gases in one-dimensional harmonic trap

Thermodynamic quantities, occupation numbers and their fluctuations of a one-dimensional Bose gas confined by a harmonic potential are studied using different ensemble approaches. Combining number theory methods, a new approach is presented to calculate the occupation numbers of different energy levels in microcanonical ensemble. The visible difference of the ground state occupation number in grand-canonical ensemble and microcanonical ensemble is found to decrease by power law as the number of particles increases.     

Dynamics of an Ultracold Bose Gas in Funnel-Shaped Potential

In this paper we develop a variational theory to study the dynamicproperties of ultracold Bose gas in a funnel external potential. We obtain one-dimensional nonlinear equation which describes the dynamics of transverse tight confined bosonic gas from three-dimension to one-dimension, and find one-dimensional s-wave scattering length which depends on the shape oftransverse confining potential. If the funnel trapping potential is strong enough at zero temperature, all transverse excitations are frozen. We find the dynamic equation which describes the Tonks-Girardeau gas and present a qualitative analysis of the experimental accessibility of the Tonks-Girardeau gas with funnel-trapped alkalic atoms.     

Correlation functions of the one-dimensional attractive Bose gas

The zero-temperature correlation functions of the one-dimensional attractive Bose gas with a delta-function interaction are calculated analytically for any value of the interaction parameter and number of particles, directly from the integrability of the model. We point out a number of interesting features, including zero recoil energy for a large number of particles, analogous to the M?ssbauer effect.     

Mean-field properties of impurity in Bose gas with three-body forces

We exactly analyze, on the mean-field level, the low-momentum properties of a single impurity atom loaded in the dilute one-dimensional Bose gas with two- and three-body short-range interactions. Particularly the Bose polaron binding energy and the quasiparticle residue are calculated for the considered system in the broad region of parameters change. We also explore the generic mean-field formula for the polaron effective mass which was shown to depend on the density profile of bath particles with a motionless impurity immersed.     

Asymptotics in ASEP with Step Initial Condition

In previous work the authors considered the asymmetric simple exclusion process on the integer lattice in the case of step initial condition, particles beginning at the positive integers. There it was shown that the probability distribution for the position of an individual particle is given by an integral whose integrand involves a Fredholm determinant. Here we use this formula to obtain three asymptotic results for the positions of these particles. In one an apparently new distribution function arises and in another the distribution function F ₂ arises. The latter extends a result of Johansson on TASEP to ASEP, and hence proves KPZ universality for ASEP with step initial condition.     

Low-lying Collective Modes of a 1D Dipolar Quantum Gas in an Anharmonic Trap

The low-lying collective modes of an anharmonically confined one-dimensional ultracold dipolar Bose gas are investigated by using time-dependent variational method. The frequencies of dipole mode and breathing mode are obtained analytically in the full crossover regime from a Tonks-Girardeau gas to a dipolar density wave state. We find that the frequency shifts caused by quartic distortion of the potential can be amplified by interparticle interaction and the collapse and revival of the collective excitations can be observed in the anharmonic trap.     

Classification of quantum degenerate regimes in one-dimensional Bose gases

In this paper we address the different regimes of quantum degeneracy in a one-dimensional Bose gas taking into consideration some parameters that are readily accessible in the experiment. We pay particular attention to the tunability of the trap anisotropy and the number of particles in the system.     

High-density limit of quasi-two-dimensional dipolar Bose gas

We consider a simple model of the quasi-two-dimensional dipolar Bose gas confined in the one-dimensional square well potential. All dipoles are assumed to be oriented along the confining axis. By means of hydrodynamic approach it is shown that the general structure of the low-lying excitations can be analyzed exactly. We demonstrate that the problem significantly simplifies in the high-density limit for which the density profile in the confined direction as well as the leading-order contribution to the ground-state energy and spectrum of elementary excitations are calculated. The low-temperature result for the damping rate of the phonon mode is also presented.     

Phase transitions for an ideal Bose condensate trapped in?a?quartic potential

Based on the classification scheme of phase transitions, we study the phase transitions for an ideal Bose gas with a finite number of particles confined in a three-dimensional quartic trap. We show that the phase transition of an ideal Bose gas in the three-dimensional quartic trap is of third order for finite particle numbers, quite different from the fact that the phase transition is of first order in the thermodynamic limit. We discuss the effects of finite particle numbers on the nature of the phase transitions, and determine the dependence of transition temperature on particle number.     

Exciting collective oscillations in a trapped 1D gas

We report on the realization of a trapped one-dimensional Bose gas and its characterization by means of measuring its lowest lying collective excitations. The quantum degenerate Bose gas is prepared in a 2D optical lattice, and we find the ratio of the frequencies of the lowest compressional (breathing) mode and the dipole mode to be (omega(B)/omega(D))(2) approximately 3.1, in accordance with the Lieb-Liniger and mean-field theory. For a thermal gas we measure (omega(B)/omega(D))(2) approximately 4. By heating the quantum degenerate gas, we have studied the transition between the two regimes. For the lowest number of particles attainable in the experiment the kinetic energy of the system is similar to the interaction energy, and we enter the strongly interacting regime.     

A Fredholm Determinant Representation in ASEP

In previous work (Tracy and Widom in Commun. Math. Phys. 279:815–844, 2008) the authors found integral formulas for probabilities in the asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) on the integer lattice ℤ. The dynamics are uniquely determined once the initial state is specified. In this note we restrict our attention to the case of step initial condition with particles at the positive integers ℤ⁺ and consider the distribution function for the mth particle from the left. In Tracy and Widom (Commun. Math. Phys. 279:815–844, 2008) an infinite series of multiple integrals was derived for the distribution. In this note we show that the series can be summed to give a single integral whose integrand involves a Fredholm determinant. We use this determinant representation to derive (non-rigorously, at this writing) a scaling limit.     

Analytical Number Theory and the Energy of Transition of Bose Gas to Fermi gas. Critical Lines as Boundaries of Noninteracting Gas (an Analog of the Bose Gas in Classical Thermodynamics)

It is proved that certain distributions in the analytic number theory coincide with the Bose–Einstein distribution. The transition of the boson branch of the decomposition of an integer (with repeated summands) into the fermion branch (without repeated summands) is described in detail near a small value of activity. Analytic formulas for the energy of transition of Bose gas to Fermi gas are obtained in the three-dimensional case and the nine-dimensional case (diatomic molecule). The radius of the Bose gas “jump” in the transition to the Fermi gas is calculated. The relationship between the constructed concepts and thermodynamics is described based on the obtained experimental values of gas characteristics on critical lines.     

Bose–Einstein condensation in the three-sphere and in the infinite slab: Analytical results

We study the finite size effects on Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) of an ideal non-relativistic Bose gas in the three-sphere (spatial section of the Einstein universe) and in a partially finite box which is infinite in two of the spatial directions (infinite slab). Using the framework of grand-canonical statistics, we consider the number of particles, the condensate fraction and the specific heat. After obtaining asymptotic expansions for large system size, which are valid throughout the BEC regime, we describe analytically how the thermodynamic limit behaviour is approached. In particular, in the critical region of the BEC transition, we express the chemical potential and the specific heat as simple explicit functions of the temperature, highlighting the effects of finite size. These effects are seen to be different for the two different geometries. We also consider the Bose gas in a one-dimensional box, a system which does not possess BEC in the sense of a phase transition even in the infinite volume limit.     

Painlevé Transcendent Evaluations of Finite System Density Matrices for 1d Impenetrable Bosons

 The recent experimental realisation of a one-dimensional Bose gas of ultra cold alkali atoms has renewed attention on the theoretical properties of the impenetrable Bose gas. Of primary concern is the ground state occupation of effective single particle states in the finite system, and thus the tendency for Bose-Einstein condensation. This requires the computation of the density matrix. For the impenetrable Bose gas on a circle we evaluate the density matrix in terms of a particular Painlevé VI transcendent in Σ-form, and furthermore show that the density matrix satisfies a recurrence relation in the number of particles. For the impenetrable Bose gas in a harmonic trap, and with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, we give a determinant form for the density matrix, a form as an average over the eigenvalues of an ensemble of random matrices, and in special cases an evaluation in terms of a transcendent related to Painlevé V and VI. We discuss how our results can be used to compute the ground state occupations. Received: 24 July 2002 / Accepted: 26 January 2003 Published online: 13 May 2003 Communicated by L. Takhtajan     

The new identity for the scattering matrix of exactly solvable models

We discovered a simple quadratic equation, which relates scattering phases of particles on Fermi surface. We consider one-dimensional Bose gas and XXZ Heisenberg quantum spin chain. Received: 4 December 1997 / Accepted: 17 March 1998     

Dynamical transition from a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate to a Tonks-Girardeau gas

We analyze in detail the expansion of a 1D Bose gas after removing the axial confinement. We show that during its one-dimensional expansion the density of the Bose gas does not follow a self-similar solution. Our analysis is based on a nonlinear Schr?dinger equation with variable nonlinearity whose validity is discussed for the expansion problem, by comparing with an exact Bose-Fermi mapping for the case of an initial Tonks-Girardeau gas. For this case, the gas is shown to expand self-similarly, with a different scaling law compared to the one-dimensional Thomas-Fermi condensate.     

Composite-fermionization of the mixture composed of Tonks gas and Fermi gas

This paper investigates the ground-state properties of the mixture composed of the strongly interacting Tonks-Girardeau gas and spin polarized Fermi gas confined in one-dimensional harmonic traps, where the interaction between the Bose atoms and Fermi atoms is tunable. With a generalized Bose-Fermi transformation the mixture is mapped into a two-component Fermi gas. The homogeneous Fermi gas is exactly solvable by the Bethe-ansatz method and the ground state energy density can be obtained. Combining the ground-state energy function of the homogeneous system with local density approximation it obtains the ground-state density distributions of inhomogeneous mixture. It is shown that with the increase in boson-fermion interaction, the system exhibits composite-fermionization crossover.     

Quasi-one-dimensional Bose gases with a large scattering length

Bose gases confined in highly elongated harmonic traps are investigated over a wide range of interaction strengths using quantum Monte Carlo techniques. We find that the properties of a Bose gas under tight transverse confinement are well reproduced by a 1D model Hamiltonian with contact interactions. We point out the existence of a unitary regime, where the properties of the quasi-1D Bose gas become independent of the actual value of the 3D scattering length a(3D). In this unitary regime, the energy of the system is well described by a hard-rod equation of state. We investigate the stability of quasi-1D Bose gases with positive and negative a(3D).     

Old mathematical errors in statistical physics

In this paper, we discuss the following questions of quantum statistics: (1) the absence of Bose condensate in ideal Bose gas in the two-dimensional and one-dimensional case; (2) the concentration of the Bose condensate in an ideal Bose gas at the lowest level of the spectrum of the Schrödinger operator. In classical statistics, we discuss the discrepancy between the notion of Boltzman-Maxwell ideal gas with the notion of saturated vapor. The appearance of clusters requires the complete revision of the Clayperon equation as an equation depending on the number of degrees of freedom. For the new ideal gas and the ideal virtual liquid, we describe the phase transition of the first kind by specifying the concept of negative pressure for ideal virtual liquids.