有限温度下一维Hubbard模型的化学势泛函理论研究

通过数值方法求解了有限温度下一维均匀Hubbard模型的热力学Bethe-ansatz方程组,得到了在给定温度和相互作用强度情况下,比热c、磁化率χ和压缩比κ随化学势μ的变化图像.基于有限温度下一维均匀Hubbard模型的精确解,利用化学势(μ)-泛函理论研究了一维谐振势下的非均匀Hubbard模型,给出了金属态和Mott绝缘态下不同温度情况时局域粒子密度n_i和局域压缩比_κi随格点的变化情况.     

有限尺度下弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质

基于巨正则系综理论和数值模拟方法,研究有限尺度下弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质,给出系统低温下的化学势、能量及热容量的解析式,分析弱相互作用、有限尺度效应对系统热力学性质的影响.研究表明,有限尺度和排斥相互作用增大了系统的化学势、能量,吸引相互作用减小了系统的化学势、能量.相互作用受到尺度的调制,尺度变大,相互作用影响变小,相互作用和尺度效应都受到温度的调制,温度升高,相互作用和尺度的影响减小.尺度和相互作用的一级修正对热容量无影响.     

有限尺度下弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质

基于巨正则系综理论和数值模拟方法，研究有限尺度下弱相互作用费米气体的热力学性质，给出系统低温下的化学势、能量及热容量的解析式，分析弱相互作用、有限尺度效应对系统热力学性质的影响.研究表明，有限尺度和排斥相互作用增大了系统的化学势、能量,吸引相互作用减小了系统的化学势、能量.相互作用受到尺度的调制，尺度变大，相互作用影响变小，相互作用和尺度效应都受到温度的调制，温度升高，相互作用和尺度的影响减小.尺度和相互作用的一级修正对热容量无影响.     

同位旋非对称强作用物质状态方程及热力学性质

在Nambu-Jona-Lasinio模型框架下,研究温度和重子化学势对同位旋非对称量子色动力学物质状态方程和热力学性质的影响.通过将零温和零重子化学势下的pion超流物质状态方程以及有限温下同位旋密度、压强与格点数据做比较,发现两种方法给出的结果符合得较好.进一步计算表明,零温和零重子化学势下的平均同位旋能量随同位旋密度单调增加,而非零重子化学势和有限温下却呈现具有极小值的非对称抛物线行为.最后,利用得到的状态方程探讨声速随同位旋化学势的变化行为,结果显示有限温和(或)重子化学势下的声速在相变点不连续,且超流相中的声速饱和值明显大于普通核物质及夸克物质中的值.另外,在超流相中重子化学势和温度具有软化状态方程以及降低声速的作用.     

铜氧化物电子掺杂在反铁磁态下的比热容和熵(英文)

利用Slave Boson平均场理论,我们研究了t-t′-t″-J模型的反铁磁下电子掺杂铜氧化物的化学势、熵和电子比热容.结论表明,在电子掺杂为δ=0.1时,电子比热容和熵有突变现象,即发生了相变.同时,我们也研究了熵随时间的演化关系,结果表明熵是受抑制的.     

极性分子摆动态的三体量子关联

极性分子具有较长的相干时间和较强的偶极-偶极相互作用,因此它被视为量子信息处理的有效量子载体.基于分子摆动态作为量子比特,研究了处于热平衡状态下三极性分子线性链系统的三体量子关联特性,分析了三体负性熵纠缠度、测量诱导扰动和三体量子失协随与电场强度、分子电偶极矩、分子转动常数、偶极-偶极相互作用和温度等参数有关的三个无量纲变量之间的变化关系.研究表明:在其他参数给定的情况下,随电场强度的增加,三体量子关联均变小;随偶极-偶极相互作用强度的增大,三体量子关联先增加到峰值再逐渐变小;温度越高,负性熵纠缠度和三体量子失协越小,但测量诱导扰动随温度的改变在电场强度和偶极-偶极相互作用影响下呈现不同的变化趋势.此外,通过调节电场强度、偶极-偶极相互作用和温度,可改变与操控极性分子摆动态的三体量子关联.     

弱磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的有限粒子数效应(英文)

由弱磁场中弱相互作用费米气体的配分函数,导出有限粒子数条件下系统的配分函数G(β,N ).在此基础上,运用统计平均方法求解有限粒子数弱相互作用费米气体热力学量的解析表达式,给出各种温度条件下的热力学性质.研究结果表明,有限粒子数效应使各个热力学量都产生了一个修正项,除温度趋于0外,粒子数对化学势的修正项有直接影响,对内能和热容量的修正项并不产生直接影响.并且有限粒子数效应总是降低化学势,从而使化学势的0点向低温漂移,粒子数增大,会削弱这种效应,粒子间的相互排斥会加强这种效应.     

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．     

库仑耦合双量子点系统的熵产生率

本文基于库仑耦合双量子点复合系统,研究了自发非平衡过程中熵产生率与信息流的基本关系.从玻恩马尔科夫近似下的量子运动主方程出发,获得稳态时总系统和子系统的熵产生率.利用Schnakenberg网络理论,揭示了各种熵产生率与基本环流的密切联系,发现全局环流决定了双量子点间的能量和信息交换,从而证明了化学势差驱动电子流动以及子系统间能量和信息交换是子系统熵产生的关键要素,信息交换引起的熵产生保证了电子输运的持续进行.结果表明在不违背热力学第二定律的基本条件下,信息可作为驱动力使电子从低化学势流向高化学势.     

基于准经典近似研究强磁场中高温费米气体的统计性质

基于准经典近似研究强磁场中高温费米气体的统计性质,给出系统的统计特征量的解析式,分析磁场和温度对统计性质的影响.结果显示,与低温情况比较,高温下的统计特征量不再振荡,与自由费米气体比较,磁场总是降低系统的总能,增加系统的化学势、热容量、熵、压强和稳定性;而且温度越高,磁场对总能及热容量的影响越弱,对化学势的影响越大.     

Quantum spin dynamics of mode-squeezed Luttinger liquids in two-component atomic gases

We report on the observation of many-body spin dynamics of interacting, one-dimensional (1D) ultracold bosonic gases with two spin states. By controlling the nonlinear atomic interactions close to a Feshbach resonance we are able to induce a phase diffusive many-body spin dynamics of the relative phase between the two components. We monitor this dynamical evolution by Ramsey interferometry, supplemented by a novel, many-body echo technique, which unveils the role of quantum fluctuations in 1D. We find that the time evolution of the system is well described by a Luttinger liquid initially prepared in a multimode squeezed state. Our approach allows us to probe the nonequilibrium evolution of one-dimensional many-body quantum systems.     

Quantum decoupling transition in a one-dimensional Feshbach-resonant superfluid

We study a one-dimensional gas of fermionic atoms interacting via an s-wave molecular Feshbach resonance. At low energies the system is characterized by two Josephson-coupled Luttinger liquids, corresponding to paired atomic and molecular superfluids. We show that, in contrast to higher dimensions, the system exhibits a quantum phase transition from a phase in which the two superfluids are locked together to one in which, at low energies, quantum fluctuations suppress the Feshbach resonance (Josephson) coupling, effectively decoupling the molecular and atomic superfluids. Experimental signatures of this quantum transition include the appearance of an out-of-phase gapless mode (in addition to the standard gapless in-phase mode) in the spectrum of the decoupled superfluid phase and a discontinuous change in the molecular momentum distribution function.     

Quantum phase transitions in electronic systems

Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature when some non‐thermal control‐parameter like pressure or chemical composition is changed. They are driven by quantum rather than thermal fluctuations. In this review we first give a pedagogical introduction to quantum phase transitions and quantum critical behavior emphasizing similarities with and differences to classical thermal phase transitions. We then illustrate the general concepts by discussing a few examples of quantum phase transitions occurring in electronic systems. The ferromagnetic transition of itinerant electrons shows a very rich behavior since the magnetization couples to additional electronic soft modes which generates an effective long‐range interaction between the spin fluctuations. We then consider the influence of rare regions on quantum phase transitions in systems with quenched disorder, taking the antiferromagnetic transitions of itinerant electrons as a primary example. Finally we discuss some aspects of the metal‐insulator transition in the presence of quenched disorder and interactions.     

Quantum fluctuations in thin superconducting wires of finite length

In one-dimensional wires, fluctuations destroy superconducting long-range order and stiffness at finite temperatures; in an infinite wire, quasi-long-range order and stiffness survive at zero temperature if the wire's dimensionless admittance mu is large, mu>2. We analyze the disappearance of this superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition in a finite wire and its resurrection due to the wire's coupling to its environment characterized through the dimensionless conductance K.     

单模光腔中N个二能级原子系统的有限温度特性和相变

本文研究单模光场中N个二能级原子Dicke模型的有限温度特性和相变. 把原子赝自旋转换为双模费米算符, 用虚时路径积分方法推导出系统的配分函数, 对作用量变分求极值得到系统的热力学平衡方程, 及原子布居数期待值和平均光子数随原子-光场耦合强度变化的解析表达式. 重点研究了在量子涨落起主导作用的低温区, 由耦合强度变化产生的从正常相到超辐射相的相变, 指出该相变遵从Landau连续相变理论, 平均光子数可作为序参数, 零值表示正常相, 大于零则为超辐射相. 在零温极限下本文的结果和量子相变理论完全符合. 另外, 本文也讨论了系统的热力学性质, 比较有限温度相变和量子相变的异同. 发现, 在强耦合区低温稳定态的光子数和平均能量都和绝对零度的值趋于一致, 而超辐射相的熵则随耦合强度的增强迅速衰减为零.     

Quantum zigzag transition in ion chains

A string of trapped ions at zero temperature exhibits a structural phase transition to a zigzag structure, tuned by reducing the transverse trap potential or the interparticle distance. The transition is driven by transverse, short wavelength vibrational modes. We argue that this is a quantum phase transition, which can be experimentally realized and probed. Indeed, by means of a mapping to the Ising model in a transverse field, we estimate the quantum critical point in terms of the system parameters, and find a finite, measurable deviation from the critical point predicted by the classical theory. A measurement procedure is suggested which can probe the effects of quantum fluctuations at criticality. These results can be extended to describe the transverse instability of ultracold polar molecules in a one-dimensional optical lattice.     

Quantum dissociation of an edge of a Luttinger liquid

In a Luttinger liquid phase of one-dimensional molecular matter the strength of zero-point motion can be characterized by dimensionless De Boer's number quantifying the interplay of quantum fluctuations and two-body interactions. Selecting the latter in the Morse form we show that dissociation of the Luttinger liquid is a process initiated at the system edge. The latter becomes unstable against quantum fluctuations at a value of De Boer's number which is smaller than that of the bulk instability which parallels the classical phenomenon of surface melting.     

Effects of Gaussian thermal fluctuations on the thermodynamic of microtubules in Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson model

This paper investigates microtubule thermodynamic properties dependence on gaussian thermal fluctuations using the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson model. After solving the self-consistent equation for thermal fluctuations, we observed its increasing behavior as a function of temperature for different dimensionality 1, 2 and 3. Thermodynamic properties such as Shannon entropy, thermodynamic entropy, heat capacity and chemical potential have been computed. We found out that under thermal fluctuations, heat capacity and chemical potential exhibit negative values that can refer to the coexistence of first and second order phase transitions during MT dynamic instability. We also found that thermodynamic properties are highly affected at low temperatures. Moreover, thermodynamic entropy locally displays the conversion of the heat into work through the negentropy. We analyzed the behavior of the polarization according to fluctuations and found that thermal fluctuations modulate the polarization and depolarization of tubulin dimers which is very important in information processing in microtubules.     

Signature of Mott-insulator transition with ultracold fermions in a one-dimensional optical lattice

Using the exact Bethe ansatz solution of the Hubbard model and Luttinger liquid theory, we investigate the density profiles and collective modes of one-dimensional ultracold fermions confined in an optical lattice with a harmonic trapping potential. We determine a generic phase diagram in terms of a characteristic filling factor and a dimensionless coupling constant. The collective oscillations of the atomic mass density, a technique that is commonly used in experiments, provide a signature of the quantum phase transition from the metallic phase to the Mott-insulator phase. A detailed experimental implementation is proposed.