Padé approximant approach to singular properties of quantum gases: the ideal cases

In this paper, we show how to recover the low-temperature and high-density information of ideal quantum gases from the high-temperature and low-density approximation by the Padéapproximant. The virial expansion is a high-temperature and low-density expansion and in practice, often, only the first several virial coefficients can be obtained. For Bose gases, we determine the BEC phase transition from a truncated virial expansion. For Fermi gases, we recover the low-temperature and high-density result from the virial expansion.     

强关联费米气体的高温热力学性质

文章首先简要评述了目前强关联超冷费米原子体系的研究现状.由于缺少严格解和小相互作用参数,强关联的量子气体一直缺乏清晰的理解.在该项研究工作中,文章作者提出了一种系统的维里级数展开方法来研究强相互作用费米气体在高温下的热力学行为.方法中的控制小参量是易逸度,即exp(μ/kBT),其中μ是体系的化学势.文章提出了一种实用的方法去计算均匀或势阱束缚下的费米气体的维里展开系数,并首次精确得到了第三维里系数.文章将计算得到的热力学状态方程与最近的实验测量及量子蒙特卡罗模拟结果进行了比较.     

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.     

Virial theorem and universality in a unitary fermi gas

Unitary Fermi gases, where the scattering length is large compared to the interparticle spacing, can have universal properties, which are independent of the details of the interparticle interactions when the range of the scattering potential is negligible. We prepare an optically trapped, unitary Fermi gas of 6Li, tuned just above the center of a broad Feshbach resonance. In agreement with the universal hypothesis, we observe that this strongly interacting many-body system obeys the virial theorem for an ideal gas over a wide range of temperatures. Based on this result, we suggest a simple volume thermometry method for unitary gases. We also show that the observed breathing mode frequency, which is close to the unitary hydrodynamic value over a wide range of temperature, is consistent with a universal hydrodynamic gas with nearly isentropic dynamics.     

Signature of Critical Point in Momentum Profile of Trapped Ultracold Bose Gases

We present a new method to identify the critical point for the Bose-Einstein condensation(BEC) of a trapped Bose gas.We calculate the momentum distribution of an interacting Bose gas near the critical temperature,and find that it deviates significantly from the Gaussian profile as the temperature approaches the critical point.More importantly,the standard deviation between the calculated momentum spectrum and the Gaussian profile at the same temperature shows a turning point at the critical point,which can be used to determine the critical temperature.These predictions are aiso confirmed by our BEC experiment for magnetically trapped ~(87)Rb gases.     

Dynamical role of anyonic excitation statistics in rapidly rotating bose gases

We show that for rotating harmonically trapped Bose gases in a fractional quantum Hall state, the anyonic excitation statistics in the rotating gas can effectively play a dynamical role. For particular values of the two-dimensional coupling constant g=-2pih2(2k-1)/m, where k is a positive integer, the system becomes a noninteracting gas of anyons, with exactly obtainable solutions satisfying Bogomol'nyi self-dual order parameter equations. Attractive Bose gases under rapid rotation thus can be stabilized in the thermodynamic limit due to the anyonic statistics of their quasiparticle excitations.     

Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas of non-Abelian anyons

We study the thermodynamical properties of an ideal gas of non-Abelian Chern–Simons particles and we compute the second virial coefficient, considering the effect of general soft-core boundary conditions for the two-body wavefunction at zero distance. The behaviour of the second virial coefficient is studied as a function of the Chern–Simons coupling, the isospin quantum number and the hard-core parameters. Expressions for the main thermodynamical quantities at the lower order of the virial expansion are also obtained: we find that at this order the relation between the internal energy and the pressure is the same found (exactly) for 2D Bose and Fermi ideal gases. A discussion of the comparison of obtained findings with available results in literature for systems of hard-core non-Abelian Chern–Simons particles is also supplied.     

Energy Fluctuation of Ideal Fermi Gas Trapped under Generic Power Law Potential U=Σ_(i=1)~d c_i|x_i/a_i|~(n_i) in d Dimensions

Energy fluctuation of ideal Fermi gas trapped under generic power law potential U=Σ_(i=1)~d c_i|x_i/a_i|~(n_i) has been calculated in arbitrary dimensions.Energy fluctuation is scrutinized further in the degenerate limit μK_B T with the help of Sommerfeld expansion.The dependence of energy fluctuation on dimensionality and power law potential is studied in detail.Most importantly our general result can not only exactly reproduce the recently published result regarding free and harmonically trapped ideal Fermi gas in d =3 but also can describe the outcome for any power law potential in arbitrary dimension.     

Plane Waves Propagating in Gases Composed of Composite Particles

The quantum discrete kinetic equations are solved to study the propagation of plane waves in a system of composite particles with hard-sphere interactions and the filling factor (ν) being 1/2. We compare the dispersion relations thus obtained by the relevant Pauli-blocking parameter B which describes the different-statistics particles for the quantum analog of the discrete Boltzmann system when B is positive (Bose gases), zero (Boltzmann gases), and negative (Fermi Gases). We found, as the effective magnetic field being zero (ν = 1/2 using the composite fermion formulation), the electric field effect will induce anomalous dispersion relations.     

Definition and measurement of global thermodynamic variables for laser-cooled trapped gas

We have used the definition of global thermodynamic variables like pressure and volume for atoms trapped in a nonuniform potential to measure the state equation for a sample of cold Na atoms kept trapped in a quadrupole magnetic field. The results show that, for low atomic density, the system behaves like an ideal gas where pressure and volume are inversely proportional. At high density values (compressed system), the deviation from an ideal gas is clear. A model based on virial expansion shows that the measured deviation is larger than the expected first-order correction. Employing the concept of global variables may be an important procedure to describe the thermodynamic of gases in the ultracold regime eventually crossing the values where critical phenomena like Bose condensation, among others, take place.     

Particle densities for dilute hard-sphere Bose or Fermi gases in an external potential

We prove that if the diameter of a hard-sphere is much smaller than the size of an external potential, the s-wave pseudopotential reduces to the Huang-Yang s-wave pseudopotential. We obtain the first-order virial expansions of particle densities for dilute hard-sphere Bose or Fermi gases in an arbitrary external potential. In the absence of an external potential, the results reduce to the Huang-Yang-Luttinger and Lee-Yang virial expansions. In the quasi-classical limit, the results reduce to the results of the local density approximation.     

Harmonic Oscillator in External Fields: Applications to Trapped Bosons and Fermions

Properties of harmonic oscillator in external fields are studied. The formalism developed is applied to a harmonic oscillator in a nonhomogeneous gravitational field. Partition functions and thermodynamic potentials for trapped Bose and Fermi gases are found. Thermodynamics of trapped Bosons and Fermions in external fields is discussed.     

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.     

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.     

Anyon-fermion mapping and applications to ultracold gases in tight waveguides

The Fermi-Bose mapping method for one-dimensional Bose and Fermi gases with zero-range interactions is generalized to an anyon-fermion mapping and applied to exact solution of several models of ultracold gases with anyonic exchange symmetry in tight waveguides: anyonic Calogero-Sutherland model, anyons with point hard-core interaction (anyonic Tonks-Girardeau gas), and spin-aligned anyon gas with infinite zero-range odd-wave attractions (attractive anyonic Tonks-Girardeau, or AATG, gas). It is proved that for even N>or=4 there are states of the AATG gas on a ring, with anyonic phase slips which are odd integral multiples of pi/(N-1), of energy lower than that of the corresponding fermionic ground state. A generalization to a spinor Fermi gas state with anyonic symmetry under purely spatial exchange enables energy lowering by the same mechanism.     

Potential energy of a 40K Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover

We present a measurement of the potential energy of an ultracold trapped gas of 40K atoms in the BCS-BEC crossover and investigate the temperature dependence of this energy at a wide Feshbach resonance, where the gas is in the unitarity limit. In particular, we study the ratio of the potential energy in the region of the unitarity limit to that of a noninteracting gas, and in the T=0 limit we extract the universal many-body parameter beta. We find beta=-0.54_{-0.12};{+0.05}; this value is consistent with previous measurements using 6Li atoms and also with recent theory and Monte Carlo calculations. This result demonstrates the universality of ultracold Fermi gases in the strongly interacting regime.     

Quantum anomaly, universal relations, and breathing mode of a two-dimensional Fermi gas

In this Letter, we show that the classical SO(2,1) symmetry of a harmonically trapped Fermi gas in two dimensions is broken by quantum effects. The anomalous correction to the symmetry algebra is given by a two-body operator that is well known as the contact. Taking into account this modification, we are able to derive the virial theorem for the system and a universal relation for the pressure of a homogeneous gas. The existence of an undamped breathing mode is associated with the classical symmetry. We provide an estimate for the anomalous frequency shift of this oscillation at zero temperature and compare the result with a recent experiment by [E. Vogt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 070404 (2012)]. Discrepancies are attributed to finite temperature effects.     

Soliton trains in Bose-Fermi mixtures

We theoretically consider the formation of bright solitons in a mixture of Bose and Fermi degenerate gases. While we assume the forces between atoms in a pure Bose component to be effectively repulsive, their character can be changed from repulsive to attractive in the presence of fermions provided the Bose and Fermi gases attract each other strongly enough. In such a regime the Bose component becomes a gas of effectively attractive atoms. Hence, generating bright solitons in the bosonic gas is possible. Indeed, after a sudden increase of the strength of attraction between bosons and fermions (realized by using a Feshbach resonance technique or by firm radial squeezing of both samples) soliton trains appear in the Bose-Fermi mixture.     

Large Deviations in Rarefied Quantum Gases

The probability of observing a large deviation (LD) in the number of particles in a region in a dilute quantum gas contained in a much larger region V is shown to decay as exp[–||F], where || is the volume of and F is the change in the appropriate free energy density, the same as in classical systems. However, in contrast with the classical case, where this formula holds at all temperatures and chemical potentials our proof is restricted to rarefied gases, both for the typical and observed density, at least for Bose or Fermi systems. The case of Boltzmann statistics with a bounded repulsive potential can be treated at all temperatures and densities. Fermions on a lattice in any dimension, or in the continuum in one dimension, can be treated at all densities and temperatures if the interaction is small enough (depending on density and temperature), provided one assumes periodic boundary conditions.