Non-universal thermodynamics of a strongly interacting inhomogeneous Fermi gas using the quantum virial expansion

Within a quantum virial expansion, we investigate theoretically the violation of universal thermodynamics for a strongly interacting unitary Fermi gas trapped in a harmonic potential. The violation is caused by the existence and anisotropy of the trapping potential and a finite-range of the two-body interaction. We calculate the second virial coefficient by solving a two-fermion problem in 3D uniform harmonic traps, as well as in anisotropic traps. In the unitarity limit, the universal value of the trapped second virial coefficient is 1/4. We discuss in detail the non-universal correction to the second virial coefficient and to the equation of state.     

Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov states in equally populated Fermi gases in a two-dimensional moving optical lattice

We study the possibility of stabilizing a Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov(FFLO) state in an equally populated two-component Fermi gas trapped in a moving two-dimensional optical lattice. For a system with nearly half filling, we find that a finite pairing momentum perpendicular to the moving direction can be spontaneously induced for a proper choice of lattice velocity. As a result, the total pairing momentum is tilted towards the nesting vector to take advantage of the significant enhancement of the density of states.     

Thermodynamic properties of two-dimensional charged spin-1/2 Fermi gases

Based on the mean-field theory, we investigate the thermodynamic properties of the two-dimensional (2D) charged spin-1/2 Fermi gas. Landé factor g is introduced to measure the strength of the paramagnetic effect. There is a competition between diamagnetism and paramagnetism in the system. The larger the Landé factor, the smaller the entropy and specific heat. Diamagnetism tends to increase the entropy, while paramagnetism leads to the decrease of the entropy. We find that there exists a critical value of Landé factor for the transition point due to the competition. The entropy of the system increases with the magnetic field when g < 0.58. With the growth of paramagnetism, when g > 0.58, the entropy first decreases with the magnetic field, then reaches a minimum value, and finally increases again. Both the entropy and specific heat increase with the temperature, and no phase transition occurs. The specific heat tends to a constant value at the hightemperature limit, and it approaches to zero at very low temperatures, which have been proved by the analytical calculation.     

Polaron and molecular states of a spin–orbit coupled impurity in a spinless Fermi sea

We investigate the polaron and molecular states of a fermionic atom with one-dimensional spin–orbit coupling(SOC)coupled to a three-dimensional spinless Fermi sea. Because of the interplay among the SOC, Raman coupling and spinselected interatomic interactions, the polaron state induced by the spin–orbit coupled impurity exhibits quite unique features. We find that the energy dispersion of the polaron generally has a double-minimum structure, which results in a finite center-of-mass(c.m.) momentum in the ground state, different from the zero-momentum polarons where SOC are introduced into the majority atoms. By further tuning the parameters such as the atomic interaction strength, a discontinuous transition between the polarons with different c.m. momenta may occur, signaled by the singular behavior of the quasiparticle residue and effective mass of the polaron. Meanwhile, the molecular state as well as the polaron-to-molecule transition is also strongly affected by the Raman coupling and the effective Zeeman field, which are introduced by the lasers generating SOC on the impurity atom. We also discuss the effects of a more general spin-dependent interaction and mass ratio. These results would be beneficial for the study of impurity physics brought by SOC.     

实际费米气体的低温性质

实际气体粒子间都存在弱的相互作用,利用赝势法求出无外势时实际费米气体的能谱,导出了低温低密度下实际费米气体的化学势、压强、熵、内能和定容热容等物理量的解析表达式,探讨了粒子间相互作用对系统低温性质的影响．     

二维带电自旋-1/2费米气体的磁性质

通过引入描述电荷-磁场和自旋-磁场相互作用竞争关系的自旋因子,研究了磁场和简谐势阱双重约束的二维带电自旋-1/2费米气体的磁性质.结果表明,当自旋因子很小时,系统显示出抗磁性,随着自旋因子的进一步增大,系统逐渐转变为顺磁性.自旋因子的临界值将磁化强度划分为抗磁性区和顺磁性区,临界值随磁场和温度的增大仅发生微小的改变.     

Polarons in alkaline-earth-like atoms with multiple background Fermi surfaces

We study the impurity problem in a Fermi gas of ¹⁷³Yb atoms near an orbital Feshbach resonance (OFR), where a single moving particle in the ³P₀ state interacts with two background Fermi seas of particles in different nuclear states of the ground ¹S₀ manifold. By employing wave function ansatz to molecule and polaron states, we investigate various properties of the molecule, the attractive polaron, and the repulsive polaron states. In comparison to the case where only one Fermi sea is populated, we find that the presence of an additional Fermi sea acts as an energy shift between the two channels of the OFR. In addition, quantum fluctuations near the Fermi level can also induce sizable effects to various properties of the attractive and repulsive polarons.     

A study of two-dimensional magnetic polaron

By using the variational method and anneal simulation, we study in this paper the self-trapped magnetic polaron (STMP) in two-dimensional anti-ferromagnetic material and the bound magnetic polaron (BMP) in ferromagnetic material. Schwinger angular momentum theory is applied to changing the problem into a coupling problem of carriers and two types of Bosons. Our calculation shows that there are single-peak and multi-peak structures in the two-dimensional STMP. For the ferromagnetic material, the properties of the two-dimensional BMP are almost the same as that in one-dimensional case; but for the anti-ferromagnetic material, the two-dimensional STMP structure is much richer than the one-dimensional case.     

Dark lump excitations in superfluid Fermi gases

We study the linear and nonlinear properties of two-dimensional matter-wave pulses in disk-shaped superfluid Fermi gases.A Kadomtsev-Petviashvili I(KPI) solitary wave has been realized for superfluid Fermi gases in the limited cases of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer(BCS) regime,Bose-Einstein condensate(BEC) regime,and unitarity regime.Onelump solution as well as one-line soliton solutions for the KPI equation are obtained,and two-line soliton solutions with the same amplitude are also studied in the limited cases.The dependence of the lump propagating velocity and the sound speed of two-dimensional superfluid Fermi gases on the interaction parameter are investigated for the limited cases of BEC and unitarity.     

Bound polaron in quantum dot quantum well structures

The problem of bound polarons in quantum dot quantum well (QDQW) structures is studied theoretically. The eigenfrequencies of bulk longitudinal optical (LO) and surface optical (SO) modes are derived in the framework of the dielectric continuum approximation. The electron--phonon interaction Hamiltonian for QDQW structures is obtained and the exchange interaction between impurity and LO-phonons is discussed. The binding energy and the trapping energy of the bound polaron in CdS/HgS QDQW structures are calculated. The numerical results reveal that there exist three branches of eigenfrequencies of surface optical vibration in the CdS/HgS QDQW structure. It is also shown that the binding energy and the trapping energy increase as the inner radius of the QDQW structure decreases, with the outer radius fixed, and the trapping energy takes a major part of the binding energy when the inner radius is very small.     

两格点两电子Hubbard-Holstein模型极化子的量子纠缠特性

本文利用相干态正交化展开方法, 对两格点两电子Hubbard-Holstein极化子模型的能谱以及动力学特性进行了精确求解. 讨论了耦合强度g、平均声子数n以及电子 初态对纠缠演化特性及系统冯诺依曼熵的影响. 数值计算结果表明: 1)纠缠度随时间的演化呈现出良好的周期性, 当其他的参数固定时, 演化周期随耦合强度g增大逐渐减小, 与平均声子数n无关; 2)系统冯诺依曼熵同电子状态占有率表现出严格的同步演化特性; (3) 在弱耦合强度和低平均声子数下, 初始电子态c_2↑⁺ c_2↓⁺|O>_e或c_1↑⁺ c_1↓⁺ |O>_e较c_1↑⁺c_2↓⁺—c_1↓⁺ c_2↑⁺具有更大的最大冯诺依曼熵, 并随耦合强度增大、平均声子数的增加而逐渐接近.     

Competition between paramagnetism and diamagnetism in charged Fermi gases

The charged Fermi gas with a small Lande-factor g is expected to be diamagnetic, while that with a larger g could be paramagnetic. We calculate the critical value of the g-factor which separates the dia- and paramagnetic regions. In the weak-field limit, gc has the same value both at high and low temperatures, . Nevertheless, gc increases with the temperature reducing in finite magnetic fields. We also compare the gc value of Fermi gases with those of Boltzmann and Bose gases, supposing the particle has three Zeeman levels σ=±1,0, and find that gc of Bose and Fermi gases is larger and smaller than that of Boltzmann gases, respectively.     

强相互作用极化费米气体中涡旋束缚态的研究

涡旋态的研究对理解冷原子体系超流特性有很重要的价值. 文章在简要回顾涡旋态研究历史的基础上,介绍了文章作者近期在超冷极化费米气体中涡旋态的工作.通过应用平均场的方法,从理论上研究了强相互作用极化费米气中单个涡旋态的结构.发现在涡旋态核中,Andreev 束缚态的填充可引起一种量子相变.这就提供了一种新颖的探测Andreev 束缚态的方法,在冷原子物理中,可通过吸收成像方法来完成.进一步文章作者对涡旋态的核尺寸进行了研究,发现涡旋态的核尺寸随着体系极化程度的增加而变大.     

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.     

费米超流气体的非线性Rosen-Zener隧穿

以非线性Rosen-Zener隧穿理论为基础, 用平均场近似的方法, 通过考虑高阶非线性项的影响, 研究了非线性两能级系统中费米超流气体的Rosen-Zener隧穿现象. 研究发现粒子间的非线性相互作用能够显著地影响量子隧穿. 分别在快扫描极限和绝热极限的条件下, 解释了Rosen-Zener隧穿现象, 并给出了矩形振荡周期与非线性参数之间的依赖关系. 这为更深入认识费米气体的基本属性提供了理论基础.     

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.     

The ground-state lifetime of polaron in a parabolic quantum dot

This paper reports that the ground-state energy of polaron was obtained with strong electron-LO-phonon coupling by using a variational method of the Pekar type in a parabolic quantum dot. Quantum transition is occurred in the quantum system due to the electron-phonon interaction and the influence of temperature. That is the polaron transit from the ground-state to the first-excited state after absorbing a LO-phonon and it causes the change of the polaron lifetime. Numerical calculations are performed and the results illustrate that the ground-state lifetime of the polaron will increase with increasing the ground-state energy of polaron and decrease with increasing the electron-LO-phonon coupling strength, the confinement length of the quantum dot and the temperature.     

Virial expansion for a strongly correlated Fermi system and its application to ultracold atomic Fermi gases

A strongly correlated Fermi system plays a fundamental role in very different areas of physics, from neutron stars, quark–gluon plasmas, to high temperature superconductors. Despite the broad applicability, it is notoriously difficult to be understood theoretically because of the absence of a small interaction parameter. Recent achievements of ultracold trapped Fermi atoms near a Feshbach resonance have ushered in enormous changes. The unprecedented control of interaction, geometry and purity in these novel systems has led to many exciting experimental results, which are to be urgently understood at both low and finite temperatures. Here we review the latest developments of virial expansion for a strongly correlated Fermi gas and their applications on ultracold trapped Fermi atoms. We show remarkable, quantitative agreements between virial predictions and various recent experimental measurements at about the Fermi degenerate temperature. For equations of state, we discuss a practical way of determining high-order virial coefficients and use it to calculate accurately the long-sought third-order virial coefficient, which is now verified firmly in experiments at ENS and MIT. We discuss also virial expansion of a new many-body parameter—Tan’s contact. We then turn to less widely discussed issues of dynamical properties. For dynamic structure factors, the virial prediction agrees well with the measurement at the Swinburne University of Technology. For single-particle spectral functions, we show that the expansion up to the second order accounts for the main feature of momentum-resolved rf-spectroscopy for a resonantly interacting Fermi gas, as recently reported by JILA. In the near future, more practical applications with virial expansion are possible, owing to the ever-growing power in computation.     

Polaron, molecule and pairing in one-dimensional spin-1/2 Fermi gas with an attractive Delta-function interaction

Using solutions of the discrete Bethe ansatz equations, we study in detail the quantum impurity problem of a spin-down fermion immersed into a fully ploarized spin-up Fermi sea with weak attraction. We prove that this impurity fermion in the one-dimensional (1D) fermionic medium behaves like a polaron for weak attraction. However, as the attraction grows, the spin-down fermion binds with one spin-up fermion from the fully-polarized medium to form a tightly bound molecule. Thus it is seen that the system undergos a crossover from a mean field polaron-like nature into a mixture of excess fermions and a bosonic molecule as the attraction changes from weak attraction into strong attraction. This polaron-molecule crossover is universal in 1D many-body systems of interacting fermions. In a thermodynamic limit, we further study the relationship between the Fredholm equations for the 1D spin-1/2 Fermi gas with weakly repulsive and attractive delta-function interactions.