Critical temperature shift in weakly interacting Bose gas

With a high-performance Monte Carlo algorithm we study the interaction-induced shift of the critical point in weakly interacting three-dimensional /psi/(4) theory (which includes quantum Bose gas). In terms of critical density, n(c), mass, m, interaction, U, and temperature, T, this shift is universal: Deltan(c)(T) = -Cm(3)T(2)U, the constant C found to be equal to 0.0140+/-0.0005. For quantum Bose gas with the scattering length a this implies DeltaT(c)/T(c) = C(0)an(1/3), with C(0) = 1.29+/-0.05.     

非相对论弱相互作用玻色气体的有效场理论处理

采用有效场理论研究了非相对论弱相互作用玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚量子气体的一般性质.在分析了系统的不可重整化性质后,从有效拉氏量出发,计算了最低阶环路修正下拉氏量参量的运动耦合常数(running coupling constant)的形式,并且得到了相应的微分方程.研究结果表明,不同于相对论玻色气体的有效理论,对非相对论弱相互作用的玻色气体,可以移除该有效理论中的内禀能量尺度,即可令该有效理论的内禀能量尺度取无穷大值.所得的分析结果将有助于对玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的临界性质和行为的深入研究.     

Crossover from 2D to 3D in a weakly interacting Fermi gas

We have studied the transition from two to three dimensions in a low temperature weakly interacting 6Li Fermi gas. Below a critical atom number N(2D) only the lowest transverse vibrational state of a highly anisotropic oblate trapping potential is occupied and the gas is two dimensional. Above N(2D) the Fermi gas enters the quasi-2D regime where shell structure associated with the filling of individual transverse oscillator states is apparent. This dimensional crossover is demonstrated through measurements of the cloud size and aspect ratio versus atom number.     

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     

囚禁弱相互作用玻色气体的势场优化准则

根据Thomas-Fermi近似,在基于最小动量态上玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的前提下,研究了囚禁弱相互作用玻色气体势场的最优化问题.导出了指数吸引势阱中有效势场和粒子数极限判据,粒子数给定时,可由此判据求出所需势场强度;势场强度给定时,可由此判据求出粒子数极限.根据吸引相互作用系统的稳定性以及求出的排斥相互作用的最大粒子数极限,结合有效势场判据,分别给出了囚禁吸引和排斥相互作用玻色气体时,势场强度的最佳取值范围. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 弱相互作用 粒子数极限 势场强度     

弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质

根据赝势法导出无外势时弱相互作用费米气体的化学势、内能和定容热容的解析表达式.在此基础上，采用局域密度近似研究谐振势中弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质，探讨粒子间相互作用对系统性质的影响. 关键词： 费米气体 相互作用 赝势法 局域密度近似 热力学性质     

Superfluidity and Anderson localisation for a weakly interacting Bose gas in a quasiperiodic potential

Using exact diagonalisation and Density Matrix Renormalisation group (DMRG) approach we analyse the transition to a localised state of a weakly interacting quasi-1D Bose gas subjected to a quasiperiodic potential. The analysis is performed by calculating the superfluid fraction, density profile, momentum distribution and visibility for different periodicities of the second lattice and in the presence (or not) of a weak repulsive interaction. It is shown that the transition is sharper towards the maximally incommensurate ratio between the two lattice periodicities, and shifted to higher values of the second lattice strength by weak repulsive interactions. We also relate our results to recent experiments.     

Soluble models of strongly interacting ultracold gas mixtures in tight waveguides

A Fermi-Bose mapping method is used to determine the exact ground states of several models of mixtures of strongly interacting ultracold gases in tight waveguides, which are generalizations of the Tonks-Girardeau (TG) gas (1D Bose gas with point hard cores) and fermionic Tonks-Girardeau (FTG) gas (1D spin-aligned Fermi gas with infinitely strong zero-range attractions). We detail the case of a Bose-Fermi mixture with TG boson-boson (BB) and boson-fermion (BF) interactions. Exact results are given for density profiles in a harmonic trap, single-particle density matrices, momentum distributions, and density-density correlations. Since the ground state is highly degenerate, we analyze the splitting of the ground manifold for large but finite BB and BF repulsions.     

Critical temperature of a trapped, weakly interacting Bose gas

We report on measurements of the critical temperature of a harmonically trapped, weakly interacting Bose gas as a function of atom number. Our results exclude ideal-gas behavior by more than two standard deviations, and agree quantitatively with mean-field theory. At our level of sensitivity, we find no additional shift due to critical fluctuations. In the course of this measurement, the onset of hydrodynamic expansion in the thermal component has been observed. Our thermometry method takes this feature into account.     

Theory of a weakly nonideal Bose gas in a magnetic field

This paper investigates Bose-Einstein condensation of an ideal gas of finite-spin bosons in an external magnetic field. We generalize Bogolyubov’s theory of a weakly nonideal Bose gas to the case where the gas of finite-spin bosons is located in an external magnetic field. We find the corresponding quasiparticle spectrum and formulate the superfluidity criterion for the boson gas. The magnetization of the weakly nonideal Bose gas is also determined. Finally, we specify a method of studying kinetic processes that take place in a weakly nonideal Bose gas. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 113, 918–929 (March 1998)     

The instability conditions of a gas trapped in weak weakly interacting Fermi magnetic field

In this paper the analytical expression of free energy expressed by small parameter r of a weakly interacting Fermi gas trapped in weak magnetic field is derived by using `the maximum approximation' method and the ensemble theory. Based on the derived expression, the exact instability conditions of a weakly interacting Fermi gas trapped in weak magnetic field at both high and low temperatures are given. From the instability conditions we get the following two results. (1) At the whole low-temperature extent, whether the interactions are repulsive or attractive with (ɑn + 4\varepsilon_F/3) (n and \varepsilon _F denote the particle-number density and the Fermi energy respectively, ɑ= 4π a\hbar_F/ m, and a is s-wave scattering length) positive, there is a lower-limit magnetic field of instability; in addition, there is an upper-limit magnetic field for the system of attractive interactions with (ɑ n + \varepsilon_F/3) negative. (2) At the whole high-temperature extent, the system with repulsive interactions is always stable, but for the system with attractive interactions, the greater the scattering length of attractive interactions | a | is, the stronger the magnetic field is and the larger the particle-number density is, the bigger the possibility of instability in the system will be.     

弱磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质

根据赝势法和系综理论导出弱磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的内能、化学势和热容量的小参数r的解析式.在此基础上给出高温和低温两种情况下弱磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质,探讨磁场及粒子间相互作用对热力学性质的影响,分析磁场与三维谐振势两种约束对系统性质影响的不同及其原因. 关键词： 赝势法 费米气体 相互作用 热力学性质     

Evolution of the normal state of a strongly interacting Fermi gas from a pseudogap phase to a molecular Bose gas

Wave-vector resolved radio frequency spectroscopy data for an ultracold trapped Fermi gas are reported for several couplings at T(c), and extensively analyzed in terms of a pairing-fluctuation theory. We map the evolution of a strongly interacting Fermi gas from the pseudogap phase into a fully gapped molecular Bose gas as a function of the interaction strength, which is marked by a rapid disappearance of a remnant Fermi surface in the single-particle dispersion. We also show that our theory of a pseudogap phase is consistent with a recent experimental observation as well as with quantum Monte Carlo data of thermodynamic quantities of a unitary Fermi gas above T(c).     

Experimental evidence for the breakdown of a Hartree-Fock approach in a weakly interacting Bose gas

We investigate the physics underlying the presence of a quasicondensate in a nearly one dimensional, weakly interacting trapped atomic Bose gas. We show that a Hartree-Fock (mean-field) approach fails to predict the existence of the quasicondensate in the center of the cloud: the quasicondensate is generated by interaction-induced correlations between atoms and not by a saturation of the excited states. Numerical calculations based on Bogoliubov theory give an estimate of the crossover density in agreement with experimental results.     

On the instability of a homogeneous state of a weakly interacting Bose gas under external cooling

The behavior of a weakly interacting Bose gas with a finite particle lifetime has been studied in the framework of hydrodynamic equations under the conditions of a constant mass and energy inflow in the presence of external cooling. A spatially homogeneous state of such a gas is shown to be unstable with respect to the formation of an inhomogeneous density structure. A possible connection of the present results with experiments [3, 4] is discussed.     

Weakly interacting Bose gas in the one-dimensional limit

We prepare a chemically and thermally one-dimensional (1D) quantum degenerate Bose gas in a single microtrap. We introduce a new interferometric method to distinguish the quasicondensate fraction of the gas from the thermal cloud at finite temperature. We reach temperatures down to kT≈0.5?ω(⊥) (transverse oscillator eigenfrequency ω(⊥)) when collisional thermalization slows down as expected in 1D. At the lowest temperatures the transverse-momentum distribution exhibits a residual dependence on the line density n(1D), characteristic for 1D systems. For very low densities the approach to the transverse single-particle ground state is linear in n(1D).     

强磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质

基于赝势法和局域密度近似研究了强磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质,得出化学势、总能和热容量的解析式,同时分析了磁场及相互作用对系统热力学性质的影响.研究表明,无论是高温情况还是低温情况下,磁场都能调节相互作用的影响.低温下,与无磁场的系统相比,磁场降低系统的化学势、总能和热容量;与无相互作用系统相比,排斥作用增加化学势而降低总能及热容量.高温下,磁场和排斥作用均可降低系统的总能而增加热容量,强磁场可以改变相互作用对总能及热容量的影响. 关键词： 强磁场 弱相互作用 费米气体 热力学性质     

Dynamical structure factor and spin-density separation for a weakly interacting two-component Bose gas

We show that spin-density separation in a Bose gas is not restricted to 1D but also occurs in higher dimensions. The ratio (alpha) of the intraspecies atom-atom interaction strength to the interspecies interaction strength strongly influences the dynamics of spin-density separation and the elementary excitations. The density wave is phononlike for all values of alpha. For alpha < 1, the spin wave is also phononlike. The spin waves have a quadratic dispersion in the alpha=1 coupling regime, while in the phase separated regime (alpha > 1) the spin waves are found to be damped. The dynamical structure factor reveals two distinct peaks corresponding to the density and spin waves for alpha < or =1. For alpha > 1 there is only one dynamical structure factor peak corresponding to the density wave.     

Spin-orbit coupled weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates in harmonic traps

We investigate theoretically the phase diagram of a spin-orbit coupled Bose gas in two-dimensional harmonic traps. We show that at strong spin-orbit coupling the single-particle spectrum decomposes into different manifolds separated by ?ω{⊥}, where ω{⊥} is the trapping frequency. For a weakly interacting gas, quantum states with Skyrmion lattice patterns emerge spontaneously and preserve either parity symmetry or combined parity-time-reversal symmetry. These phases can be readily observed in a spin-orbit coupled gas of ^{87}Rb atoms in a highly oblate trap.     

The universal sound velocity formula for the strongly interacting unitary Fermi gas

Due to the scale invariance,the thermodynamic laws of strongly interacting limit unitary Fermi gas can be similar to those of non-interacting ideal gas.For example,the virial theorem between pressure and energy density of the ideal gas P=2E/3V is still satisfied by the unitary Fermi gas.This paper analyses the sound velocity of unitary Fermi gases with the quasi-linear approximation.For comparison,the sound velocities for the ideal Boltzmann,Bose and Fermi gas are also given.Quite interestingly,the sound velocity formula for the ideal non-interacting gas is found to be satisfied by the unitary Fermi gas in different temperature regions.