双势阱中玻色-费米混合气体的周期调制效应

在周期调制场下, 通过对双势阱中费米子数目及相互作用参数的调节, 研究了该系统中玻色子的自俘获现象. 研究发现, 系统中费米子数目及相互作用参数都会影响玻色子的自俘获现象, 并且随着 相互作用及粒子数目的变化, 玻色子的自俘获发生临界现象. 关键词： 玻色-费米混合气体 周期调制 自俘获     

Bose-fermi mixtures in a three-dimensional optical lattice

We have studied mixtures of fermionic (40)K and bosonic (87)Rb quantum gases in a three-dimensional optical lattice. We observe that an increasing admixture of the fermionic species diminishes the phase coherence of the bosonic atoms as measured by studying both the visibility of the matter wave interference pattern and the coherence length of the bosons. Moreover, we find that the attractive interactions between bosons and fermions lead to an increase of the boson density in the lattice which we measure by studying three-body recombination in the lattice. In our data, we do not observe three-body loss of the fermionic atoms. An analysis of the thermodynamics of a noninteracting Bose-Fermi mixture in the lattice suggests a mechanism for sympathetic cooling of the fermions in the lattice.     

Degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture of metastable atoms

We report the observation of simultaneous quantum degeneracy in a dilute gaseous Bose-Fermi mixture of metastable atoms. Sympathetic cooling of helium-3 (fermion) by helium-4 (boson), both in the lowest triplet state, allows us to produce ensembles containing more than 10(6) atoms of each isotope at temperatures below 1 microK, and achieve a fermionic degeneracy parameter of T/TF = 0.45. Because of their high internal energy, the detection of individual metastable atoms with subnanosecond time resolution is possible, permitting the study of bosonic and fermionic quantum gases with unprecedented precision. This may lead to metastable helium becoming the mainstay of quantum atom optics.     

Multiband spectroscopy of ultracold fermions: observation of reduced tunneling in attractive Bose-Fermi mixtures

We perform a detailed experimental study of the band excitations and tunneling properties of ultracold fermions in optical lattices. Employing a novel multiband spectroscopy for fermionic atoms, we can measure the full band structure and tunneling energy with high accuracy. In an attractive Bose-Fermi mixture we observe a significant reduction of the fermionic tunneling energy, which depends on the relative atom numbers. We attribute this to an interaction-induced increase of the lattice depth due to the self-trapping of the atoms.     

变分法研究一维Bose-Fermi系统的稳定性

利用能量泛函变分法研究了一维Bose-Fermi系统稳定基态的存在条件.根据Bose-Fermi系统的Lagrange量可以得到三维Bose-Fermi体系所满足的非线性动力学方程组.当外势阱的横向囚禁频率远大于轴向囚禁频率时,体系可以当作一维模型来处理.从描述三维体系的动力学方程可以得到描述一维体系的动力学方程,选取适当的无量纲参数,可以对一维动力学方程组进行无量纲处理,得到数值计算和理论分析中常用到的无量纲方程.选择高斯型试探解(简单孤立子解),利用能量泛函变分法得到一维Bose-Fermi体系稳定的高斯型孤立子存在条件.分析了两种特殊情况下孤立子能够稳定存在的区域以及原子数的临界条件,最后得出了一般情况下稳定基态存在时临界散射长度与原子数以及波包宽度之间的关系.     

Coherent interaction of a single fermion with a small bosonic field

We have experimentally studied few-body impurity systems consisting of a single fermionic atom and a small bosonic field on the sites of an optical lattice. Quantum phase revival spectroscopy has allowed us to accurately measure the absolute strength of Bose-Fermi interactions as a function of the interspecies scattering length. Furthermore, we observe the modification of Bose-Bose interactions that is induced by the interacting fermion. Because of an interference between Bose-Bose and Bose-Fermi phase dynamics, we can infer the mean fermionic filling of the mixture and quantify its increase (decrease) when the lattice is loaded with attractive (repulsive) interspecies interactions.     

Collisional stability of fermionic Feshbach molecules

Using a Feshbach resonance, we create ultracold fermionic molecules starting from a Bose-Fermi atom gas mixture. The resulting mixture of atoms and weakly bound molecules provides a rich system for studying few-body collisions because of the variety of atomic collision partners for molecules; either bosonic, fermionic, or distinguishable atoms. Inelastic loss of the molecules near the Feshbach resonance is dramatically affected by the quantum statistics of the colliding particles and the scattering length. In particular, we observe a molecule lifetime as long as 100 ms near the Feshbach resonance.     

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.     

Landau damping in a dipolar Bose–Fermi mixture in the Bose–Einstein condensation(BEC) limit

By using a mean-field approximation which describes the coupled oscillations of condensate and noncondensate atoms in the collisionless regime, Landau damping in a dilute dipolar Bose–Fermi mixture in the BEC limit where Fermi superfluid is treated as tightly bounded molecules, is investigated. In the case of a uniform quasi-two-dimensional(2D)case, the results for the Landau damping due to the Bose–Fermi interaction are obtained at low and high temperatures. It is shown that at low temperatures, the Landau damping rate is exponentially suppressed. By increasing the strength of dipolar interaction, and the energy of boson quasiparticles, Landau damping is suppressed over a broader temperature range.     

Dipole oscillations in a Bose-Fermi mixture in the time-dependent approach

We study the dipole collective oscillations in a Bose-Fermi mixture, which are formulated with the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation and the Vlasov equation, using a dynamical time-dependent approach. We find a large difference in the behavior of fermion oscillations between the time-dependent approach and the usual approaches such as the random-phase approximation. The dipole oscillation of the Bose-Fermi mixture cannot be described with simple center-of-mass motions of the two gases.     

Density and stability in ultracold dilute boson-fermion mixtures

We analyze in detail recent experiments on ultracold dilute ⁸⁷Rb–⁴⁰K mixtures in Hamburg and in Florence within a mean-field theory. To this end we determine how the stationary bosonic and fermionic density profiles in this mixture depend in the Thomas-Fermi limit on the respective particle numbers. Furthermore, we investigate how the observed stability of the Bose-Fermi mixture with respect to collapse is crucially related to the value of the interspecies s-wave scattering length.     

玻色-费米混合气体的非线性Landau-Zener隧穿

在有相互作用的非线性两模系统中, 通过对相互作用参数的调节, 研究了该系统中玻色-费米混合气体的Landau-Zener隧穿现象. 研究发现, 其中某一组分的自相互作用会影响另一组分粒子的隧穿, 使得隧穿出现临界现象. 关键词： 玻色-费米混合气体 Landau-Zener隧穿 量子绝热隧穿     

Atomic four-wave mixing: fermions versus bosons

We compare four-wave mixing in quantum degenerate gases of bosonic and fermionic atoms. We find that matter-wave gratings formed from either bosonic or fermionic atoms can in principle exhibit nearly identical Bragg scattering and four-wave mixing properties. This implies that effects such as coherent matter-wave amplification and superradiance can occur in degenerate Fermi gases. This effect is due to constructive many-particle quantum interferences, which in the boson case are interpreted as "Bose enhancement."     

Universal transverse conductance between quantum Hall regions and (2+1) D bosonization

Using bosonization techniques for (2+1) D systems, we show that the transverse conductance for a system with general current interactions, when measured between perfect Hall regions is not renormalized at low temperatures. Our method extends two results we have recently obtained on low dimensional fermionic systems: on the one hand, the relationship between universality of Landauer conductance and universality of bosonization rules for (1+1) D systems, and on the other hand, the universal character of the bosonized topological current associated to a (2+1) D fermionic system with current interactions.     

Dependence of overlap topological charge density on Wilson mass parameter

In this paper,we analyze the dependence of the topological charge density from the overlap operator on the Wilson mass parameter in the overlap kernel by the symmetric multi-probing source(SMP) method.We observe that non-trivial topological objects are removed as the Wilson mass is increased.A comparison of topological charge density calculated by the SMP method using the fermionic definition with that of the gluonic definition by the Wilson flow method is shown.A matching procedure for these two methods is used.We find that there is a best match for topological charge density between the gluonic definition with varied Wilson flow time and the fermionic definition with varied Wilson mass.By using the matching procedure,the proper flow time of Wilson flow in the calculation of topological charge density can be estimated.As the lattice spacing a decreases,the proper flow time also decreases,as expected.     

Tunable Range Interactions and Multi-Roton Excitations for Bosons in a Bose-Fermi Mixture with Optical Lattices *

In this article, we discuss a method to control the long-range interactions between bosons in a three-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixture with the help of optical lattices on fermions. We find the range and the peaked momentum of the fermion-mediated interactions can be tuned by the optical lattice depth and the fermion density. If the fermion density is close to half-filling, roton excitations can be generated with weak Bose-Fermi interactions. Further, if the fermions are not exact at half-filling, multi-roton structure may emerge, implying competing density orders. Therefore, tuning the lattice depth and the fermion density in a Bose-Fermi mixture serves as an effective way to control the interaction range and resonant momentum between bosons.     

Landau-Zener tunneling of Bose-Fermi mixture in double-well

The nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling of a Bose-Fermi mixture in a double-well potential is studied in the present paper. The effect of interaction parameters on bosonic and fermionic tunneling probability is studied for the mixture of ⁴⁰K-⁸⁷Rb. The tunneling phenomena of the system can be controled by adjusting sweeping rate, intraspecies interaction, interspecies interaction and the numbers of bosons and fermions. It is noted that there are three different regions in phase diagram: self-trapping (ST), complete tunneling (CT) and incomplete tunneling (ICT).     

Ground-state properties of interacting two-component Bose gases in a one-dimensional harmonic trap

We study ground-state properties of interacting two-component boson gases in a one-dimensional harmonic trap by using the exact numerical diagonalization method. Based on numerical solutions of many-body Hamiltonians, we calculate the ground-state density distributions in the whole interaction regime for different atomic number ratio, intra- and inter-atomic interactions. For the case with equal intra- and inter-atomic interactions, our results clearly display the evolution of density distributions from a Bose condensate distribution to a Fermi-like distribution with the increase of the repulsive interaction. Particularly, we compare our result in the strong interaction regime to the exact result in the infinitely repulsive limit which can be obtained by a generalized Bose-Fermi mapping. We also discuss the general case with different intra- and inter-atomic interactions and show the rich configurations of the density profiles.     

New directions in degenerate dipolar molecules via collective association

We survey results on the creation of heteronuclear Fermi molecules by tuning a degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture into the neighborhood of an association resonance, either photoassociation or Feshbach, as well as the subsequent prospects for Cooper-like pairing between atoms and molecules. In the simplest case of only one molecular state, corresponding to either a Feshbach resonance or one-color photoassociation, the system displays Rabi oscillations and rapid adiabatic passage between a Bose-Fermi mixture of atoms and fermionic molecules. For two-color photoassociation, the system admits stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) from a Bose-Fermi mixture of atoms to stable Fermi molecules, even in the presence of particle-particle interactions. By tailoring the STIRAP sequence it is possible to deliberately convert only a fraction of the initial atoms, leaving a finite fraction of bosons behind to induce atom-molecule Cooper pairing via density fluctuations; unfortunately, this enhancement is insufficient to achieve a superfluid transition with present ultracold technology. We therefore propose the use of an association resonance that converts atoms and diatomic molecules (dimers) into triatomic molecules (trimers), which leads to a crossover from a Bose-Einstein condensate of trimers to atom-dimer Cooper pairs. Because heteronuclear dimers may possess a permanent electric dipole moment, this overall system presents an opportunity to investigate novel microscopic physics.Received: 16 June 2004, Published online: 21 September 2004PACS: 03.75.Ss Degenerate Fermi gases - 05.30.Fk Fermion systems and electron gas - 34.10. + x General theories and models of atomic and molecular collisions and interactions (including statistical theories, transition state, stochastic and trajectory models, etc.) - 74.20.Mn Nonconventional mechanisms (spin fluctuations, polarons and bipolarons, resonating valence bond model, anyon mechanism, marginal Fermi liquid, Luttinger liquid, etc.) - 21.10.-k Properties of nuclei; nuclear energy levels