一维光晶格中超流Fermi气体基态性质的研究

研究了一维光晶格中超流Fermi气体基态解的性质.在平均场理论框架下,利用超流Fermi体系中原子间相互作用能与晶格势能相互平衡的条件,得到了一维光晶格中超流Fermi气体在整个BEC-BCS跨越区的一组基态解,给出了基态的原子数密度空间分布、总原子数和能量.进一步对系统从BEC端转变到BCS端时的基态解性质进行了深入分析和对比.结果表明,一维光晶格中超流Fermi气体基态分布具有一些特殊的性质,由于Fermi压力,相比而言超流Fermi气体在BCS端的基态原子数密度空间分布较为扩展,平均能量明显偏高.     

Realization of a strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixture from a two-component Fermi gas

We show the emergence of a strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixture from a two-component Fermi mixture with population imbalance. By analyzing in situ density profiles of 6Li atoms in the BCS-BEC crossover regime, we identify a critical interaction strength, beyond which all minority atoms pair up with majority atoms and form a Bose condensate. This is the regime where the system can be effectively described as a boson-fermion mixture. We determine the dimer-fermion and dimer-dimer scattering lengths and beyond-mean-field contributions. Our study realizes a gedanken experiment of bosons immersed in a Fermi sea of one of their constituents, revealing the composite nature of the bosons.     

n-changing collisions of Rydberg atoms with ground-state atoms

The inelastic transitions between hydrogenic energy levels of a Rydberg atom induced in collisions with ground-state atoms are considered. The corresponding transition probability and cross section are calculated using the Fermi pseudopotential to describe the atom-Rydberg-atom interaction and a quasiclassical expression for the density distribution of the Rydberg electron.     

Shortcut to a Fermi-degenerate gas of molecules via cooperative association

We theoretically examine the creation of a Fermi-degenerate gas of molecules by considering a photoassociation or Feshbach resonance applied to a degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture of atoms. This problem raises interest because, unlike bosons, fermions in general do not behave cooperatively, so that the collective conversion of a degenerate gas atoms into a macroscopic number of diatomic molecules is not to be expected. Nevertheless, we find that the coupled Fermi system displays collective Rabi-like oscillations and a rapid adiabatic passage between atoms and molecules, thereby mimicking Bose-Einstein statistics. Cooperative association of a degenerate mixture of Bose and Fermi gases could therefore serve as a shortcut to a degenerate gas of Fermi molecules.     

弱相互作用费米气体的不稳定性判据

根据由赝势法得到的弱相互作用费米气体的自由能，利用热力学方法研究了无外场时弱相互作用费米气体的稳定性.结果表明，无外场情况下理想费米气体与存在弱排斥相互作用的费米气体是稳定的；而具有弱吸引相互作用的费米气体在一定条件下可出现不稳定性.给出了不稳定性的粒子数密度判据和温度判据，就不同逸度情况下临界粒子数密度的具体表达结果以及温度、粒子质量和吸引相互作用对临界粒子数密度的影响进行了讨论. 关键词： 费米气体 相互作用 不稳定性判据     

Observation of a degenerate Fermi gas confined by a standing electromagnetic wave

We have observed a gas of Fermi atoms confined in the antinodes of a standing electromagnetic wave. The standing wave is formed by two counter-propagating beams with the wavelength of 10.6 μm focused on the same spot. Each antinode confines a pancake-shaped cloud of 7500 lithium-6 atoms in two equally populated spin states at the temperature T = 0.1E _F, where E _F is the Fermi energy. The system is in the regime beyond the local density approximation: Only the 3 lowest energy states of the axial motion are populated. The system may become an instrument for the study of 2D Fermi physics and 3D effects beyond the local density approximation.     

Non-universal Fermi polaron in quasi two-dimensional quantum gases

We consider an impurity problem in a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gas, where a spin-down impurity is immersed in a Fermi sea of N spin-up atoms. Using a variational approach and an effective two-channel model, we obtain the energy for a wide range of interaction strength and for various different mass ratios between the impurity and the background fermion in the context of heteronuclear mixture. We demonstrate that in a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gas there exists a transition of the ground state from polaron in the weakly interacting region to molecule in the strongly interacting region. The critical interaction strength of the polaron-molecule transition is non-universal and depends on the particle density of the background Fermi sea. We also investigate the excited repulsive polaron state, and find similar non-universal behavior.     

Measurement of positive and negative scattering lengths in a Fermi gas of atoms

We report on progress toward realizing a predicted superfluid phase in a Fermi gas of atoms. We present measurements of both large positive and large negative scattering lengths in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas of atoms near a magnetic-field Feshbach resonance. We employ an rf spectroscopy technique to directly measure the mean-field interaction energy, which is proportional to the s-wave scattering length. Near the peak of the resonance we observe a saturation of the interaction energy; it is in this strongly interacting regime that superfluidity is predicted to occur. We have also observed anisotropic expansion of the gas, which has recently been suggested as a signature of superfluidity. However, we find that this can be attributed to a purely collisional effect.     

Novel superfluidity in a trapped gas of Fermi atoms with repulsive interaction loaded on an optical lattice

We investigate a possibility of superfluidity in a trapped gas of Fermi atoms with a repulsive interaction in the presence of an optical lattice. Applying the exact diagonalization method to a one-dimensional Hubbard model including the trap potential, we find that, when the strength of the repulsive interaction exceeds a critical value, the binding energy of two Fermi atoms becomes negative below the half-filling case, indicating that an attractive interaction effectively works between Fermi atoms. In this case, a "Mott insulating core" appears in the center of the trap, where each site is occupied by one atom. The Cooper-pair correlation strongly develops between atoms in the left- and right-hand sides of this core.     

Universal fermi gas with two- and three-body resonances

We consider a Fermi gas with two components of different masses, with the s-wave two-body interaction tuned to unitarity. In the range of mass ratio 8.62相似文献   

BCS and BEC p-wave pairing in Bose-Fermi gases

The pairing of fermionic atoms in a mixture of atomic fermion and boson gases at zero temperature is investigated. The attractive interaction between fermions, that can be induced by density fluctuations of the bosonic background, can give rise to a superfluid phase in the Fermi component of the mixture. The atoms of both species are assumed to be in only one internal state, so that the pairing of fermions is effective only in odd-l channels. No assumption about the value of the ratio between the Fermi velocity and the sound velocity in the Bose gas is made in the derivation of the energy gap equation. The gap equation is solved without any particular ansatz for the pairing field or the effective interaction. The p-wave superfluidity is studied in detail. By increasing the strength and/or decreasing the range of the effective interaction a transition of the fermion pairing regime, from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer state to a system of tightly bound couples can be realized. These composite bosons behave as a weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate.     

Released momentum distribution of a Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover

We develop a time-dependent mean-field theory to investigate the released momentum distribution and the released energy of an ultracold Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover after the scattering length has been set to zero by a fast magnetic-field ramp. For a homogeneous gas we analyze the nonequilibrium dynamics of the system as a function of the interaction strength and of the ramp speed. For a trapped gas the theoretical predictions are compared with experimental results.     

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.     

Momentum distribution and condensate fraction of a fermion gas in the BCS-BEC crossover

By using the diffusion Monte Carlo method we calculate the one- and two-body density matrix of an interacting Fermi gas at T = 0 in the BCS to Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) crossover. Results for the momentum distribution of the atoms, as obtained from the Fourier transform of the one-body density matrix, are reported as a function of the interaction strength. Off-diagonal long-range order in the system is investigated through the asymptotic behavior of the two-body density matrix. The condensate fraction of pairs is calculated in the unitary limit and on both sides of the BCS-BEC crossover.     

Relativistic Fermi-Gas Model for Nucleus

Spin-half fermions are considered to be limited in a spherical potential well with periodic boundary conditions. The whole system is treated like a relativistic Fermi Gas. Solving the corresponding Dirac equation, the density of states, the Fermi energy, the average energy, the density of states of nucleons and the total energy of the ground-state are obtained.     

Study of dynamical behaviour and fermionization of a bosonic gas in funnel potential

This paper presents a funnel external potential model to investigate dynamic properties of ultracold Bose gas. By using variational method, we obtain the ground-state energy and density properties of ultracold Bose atoms. The results show that the ultracold Bose gas confined in a funnel potential experiences the transition from three-dimensional regime to quasi-one-dimensional regime in a small aspect ratio, and undergoes fermionization process as the aspect ratio increases.     

A non-local approximation to the exchange energy of the non-homogeneous electron gas

A non-local approximation to the exchange energy in an inhomogeneous electron gas is proposed which preserves the main characteristics of the correct Fermi hole. Tested for the atoms He and Ne, it gives a substantial improvement over the local approximation in the calculation of the exchange energy and the exchange energy density and reproduces closely the Hartree-Fock results. The results show that this approximation should be useful in solids.     

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Fermi gases confined in tight one-dimensional waveguides form two-particle bound states of atoms in the presence of a strongly attractive interaction. Based on the exact solution of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 interacting Fermi gas, we demonstrate that a stable excited state with no pairing between attractive fermionic atoms can be realized by a sudden switch of interaction from the strongly repulsive regime to strongly attractive regime. Such a state is an exact fermionic analog of the experimentally observed super-Tonks-Girardeau state of bosonic Cesium atoms [Science 325, 1224 (2009)] and should be possible to be observed by the experiment. The frequency of the lowest breathing mode of the fermionic super-Tonks-Girardeau gas is calculated as a function of the interaction strength, which could be used as a detectable signature for the experimental observation.     

Collective mode evidence of high-spin bosonization in a trapped one-dimensional atomic Fermi gas with tunable spin

We calculate the frequency of collective modes of a one-dimensional repulsively interacting Fermi gas with high-spin symmetry confined in harmonic traps at zero temperature. This is a system realizable with fermionic alkaline-earth-metal atoms such as ¹⁷³Yb, which displays an exact SU(κ$\kappa$) spin symmetry with κ?2$\kappa ?2$ and behaves like a spinless interacting Bose gas in the limit of infinite spin components κ→∞$\kappa \to \infty$, namely high-spin bosonization. We solve the homogeneous equation of state of the high-spin Fermi system by using Bethe ansatz technique and obtain the density distribution in harmonic traps based on local density approximation. The frequency of collective modes is calculated by exactly solving the zero-temperature hydrodynamic equation. In the limit of large number of spin-components, we show that the mode frequency of the system approaches that of a one-dimensional spinless interacting Bose gas, as a result of high-spin bosonization. Our prediction of collective modes is in excellent agreement with a very recent measurement for a Fermi gas of ¹⁷³Yb atoms with tunable spin confined in a two-dimensional tight optical lattice.     

Realization of a resonant Fermi gas with a large effective range

We have measured the interaction energy and three-body recombination rate for a two-component Fermi gas near a narrow Feshbach resonance and found both to be strongly energy dependent. Even for de Broglie wavelengths greatly exceeding the van der Waals length scale, the behavior of the interaction energy as a function of temperature cannot be described by atoms interacting via a contact potential. Rather, energy-dependent corrections beyond the scattering length approximation are required, indicating a resonance with an anomalously large effective range. For fields where the molecular state is above threshold, the rate of three-body recombination is enhanced by a sharp, two-body resonance arising from the closed-channel molecular state which can be magnetically tuned through the continuum. This narrow resonance can be used to study strongly correlated Fermi gases that simultaneously have a sizable effective range and a large scattering length.