Interaction versus dimerization in one-dimensional Fermi systems

In order to study the effect of interaction and lattice distortion on quantum coherence in one-dimensional Fermi systems, we calculate the ground state energy and the phase sensitivity of a ring of interacting spinless fermions on a dimerized lattice. Our numerical DMRG studies, in which we keep up to 1000 states for systems of about 100 sites, are supplemented by analytical considerations using bosonization techniques. We find a delocalized phase for an attractive interaction, which differs from that obtained for random lattice distortions. The extension of this delocalized phase depends strongly on the dimerization induced modification of the interaction. Taking into account the harmonic lattice energy, we find a dimerized ground state for a repulsive interaction only. The dimerization is suppressed at half filling, when the correlation gap becomes large. Received: 11 February 1998 / Revised: 1st April 1998 / Accepted: 30 April 1998     

Effect of impurity on the absorption of a parabolic quantum dot with including Rashba spin–orbit interaction

In this paper, the influence of impurity parameters on the electron energy spectrum and absorption coefficients in a parabolic quantum dot and in the presence of Rashba spin–orbit interaction subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field is studied. The impurity potential is approximated by a Gaussian form. We have shown that in the both cases of a repulsive and attractive Gaussian impurity, the absorption coefficients are strongly affected by the decay length. These coefficients show blue (red) shift as the decay length of repulsive (attractive) impurity is increased. The dependence of the absorption coefficients on the impurity position is also examined for different polarizations. Our results show that the absorption coefficient has local maximum (minimum) for a given value of impurity position for Y-polarized (X-polarized) light.     

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of bosonic and fermionic impurities in a two-dimensional hard-core boson system

A two-dimensional lattice hard-core boson system with a small fraction of bosonic or fermionic impurities is studied. The impurity hopping and interactions are identical to those of the dominant bosons, so that effects due to quantum statistics can be isolated. A quantum Monte Carlo scheme is developed in which bosonic paths are sampled and the impurities are introduced at the level of summing over permutation cycles. For both types of impurities, an anomaly in the effective impurity interaction energy is found at the Kosterlitz-Thouless temperature; it changes from attractive for T>T(KT) to repulsive for T相似文献   

Quantum phase transitions in the bosonic single-impurity Anderson model

We consider a quantum impurity model in which a bosonic impurity level is coupled to a non-interacting bosonic bath, with the bosons at the impurity site subject to a local Coulomb repulsion U. Numerical renormalization group calculations for this bosonic single-impurity Anderson model reveal a zero-temperature phase diagram where Mott phases with reduced charge fluctuations are separated from a Bose-Einstein condensed phase by lines of quantum critical points. We discuss possible realizations of this model, such as atomic quantum dots in optical lattices. Furthermore, the bosonic single-impurity Anderson model appears as an effective impurity model in a dynamical mean-field theory of the Bose-Hubbard model.     

Energy States in a Dimerized Chain with an Impurity

The quantum coherent property of excitons (electrons) in a dimerized chain with the interaction of an impurity is studied analytically. The energy spectrum and the wavefunctions for both the extended states and the localized states are obtained explicitly, from which the effects of the impurity and the electron-phonon interaction (which models the dimerized chain) are manifested. The symmetry properties for the energy states in the parameter space and the real space are also given.     

CHARGE AND SPIN GAPS IN THE DIMERIZED HUBBARD MODEL

By using the bosonization and renormalization group methods, we have studied the low energy physical properties in the one-dimensional dimerized Hubbard model. The formation of charge and spin gaps is investigated both for the half-filled electron band and away from the half-filled band. The scaling laws of the charge and spin gaps with the dimerization parameterΔ and the repulsive interaction strength U are obtained.     

Quantum magnetic impurities in magnetically ordered systems

We discuss the problem of a spin 1/2 impurity immersed in a spin S magnetically ordered background. We show that the problem maps onto a generalization of the dissipative two level system with two independent heat baths, associated with the Goldstone modes of the magnet, that couple to different components of the impurity spin operator. Using analytical perturbative renormalization group methods and accurate numerical renormalization group we show that contrary to other dissipative models there is quantum frustration of decoherence and quasiscaling even in the strong coupling regime. We make predictions for the behavior of the impurity magnetic susceptibility. Our results may also have relevance to quantum computation.     

The exchange interaction effect in the scanning tunneling spectroscopy of a two-orbital Anderson impurity on metallic surface

We investigate the scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) of a two-orbital Anderson impurity adsorbed on a metallic surface by using the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method. The density of state of magnetic impurity and the local conduction electron are calculated. We obtain the Fano resonance line shape in the STM conductance at zero temperature. For the impurity atom with antiferromagnetic inter-orbital exchange interaction and a spin singlet ground state, we show that a dip in the STM spectra around zero bias voltage regime and side peaks of spin excitation can be observed. The spin excitation energy is proportional to the exchange interaction strength. As the exchange interaction is ferromagnetic, the underscreened Kondo effect dominates the low energy properties of this system, and it gives rise to drastically different STM spectra as compared with the spin singlet case.     

半导体中的杂质能级

对于深能级杂质,通常的有效质量近似已不再成立。本文由Bloch波函数出发,应用赝势的概念,证明了杂质波函数及能级满足一等效的薛定谔方程。其中除包含通常的长程库仑位势外,还有一短程位势,后者随不同杂质原子而异。对浅能级杂质,它引起谷-轨道分裂,但对深能级杂质,它已不能看成微扰项了。我们讨论了这部分短程位势对杂质束缚能级的影响。只有当等效势阱深到足以单独地引起电子的共振散射或束缚态时,它对杂质束缚能级才有很明显的影响,束缚能级随此势阱加深而迅速增加。此外可以证明,短程作用的带间矩阵元可以近似用一等价带内排斥势来代替,当束缚能接近禁带宽度时,带间作用影响很大。我们指出,带间作用可以解释为什么杂质能够同时俘获电子和空穴。通过一个简单的例子,我们进行了具体的数值计算,并进一步分析了短程作用的影响。最后我们利用这个简单模型讨论了Cu,Ag,Au在Ge中的能级。     

Soliton interaction in logarithmically saturable media

An analysis, based on the variational approach, is carried out of the interaction between two fully coherent solitons as well as two partially coherent soliton stripes in a medium with logarithmic nonlinearity. For the coherent case, it is found that the interaction can be both attractive and repulsive depending on the relative phase. The different interaction scenarios involve a bound system where the distance between the solitons oscillates with various magnitude of the oscillation amplitude, including total coalescence, and another where the solitons separate asymptotically. The effect of partial coherence on the soliton interaction is also studied by analyzing the interaction between two partially coherent soliton stripes. It is found that the strength as well as the character (attractive/repulsive) of the interaction changes for decreasing coherence. Thus, the general interaction properties of solitons in logarithmic nonlinear media are qualitatively similar to those of solitons in nonlinear Kerr media.     

Peierls transition in the quantum spin-Peierls model

We use the density matrix renormalization group method to investigate the role of longitudinal quantized phonons on the Peierls transition in the spin-Peierls model. For both the XY and Heisenberg spin-Peierls model we show that the staggered phonon order parameter scales as sqrt[lambda] (and the dimerized bond order scales as lambda) as lambda-->0 (where lambda is the electron-phonon interaction). This result is true for both linear and cyclic chains. Thus, we conclude that the Peierls transition occurs at lambda=0 in these models. Moreover, for the XY spin-Peierls model we show that the quantum predictions for the bond order follow the classical prediction as a function of inverse chain size for small lambda. We therefore conclude that the zero lambda phase transition is of the mean-field type.     

Quantum Coherence and Correlation in Spin Models with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction

We study quantum coherence and quantum correlation for detecting quantum phase transition (QPT) by means of quantum renormalization group (QRG) in various spin chain models with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction, including XXZ model with DM interaction, Ising model with DM interaction and XY model with DM interaction. It is found that through enough QRG iterations, l ₁ norm quantum coherence and one-norm geometric quantum discord can effectively characterize QPT. We also discuss the effect of DM interaction and anisotropy on quantum coherence and quantum correlation.     

玻色爱因斯坦凝聚体中杂质的相互作用

文章研究了两个杂质浸入玻色凝聚体中的相互作用.通过使用微扰法,计算了在弱杂质-玻色子相互作用区域中的基态能量.结果表明基态能量与两杂质之间的相对距离有关.从基态能量出发,研究发现不管杂质与玻色子相互作用是处在排斥状态还是吸引状态,两杂质之间都有保持吸引趋势;而当一个杂质与玻色子相互作用是吸引时,另一个为排斥时,两个杂质之间呈现出了排斥的效果.通过杂质之间有效力的计算也验证了上述现象,进一步研究凝聚体密度背后的力学机制,再次得出了一致结论.     

The Effects of an Impurity in an Ising‐XXZ Diamond Chain on Thermal Entanglement,on Quantum Coherence,and on Quantum Teleportation

The effects of an impurity plaquette on the thermal quantum correlations measurement by the concurrence, on quantum coherence quantified by the recently proposed l₁‐norm of coherence and on quantum teleportation in a Ising‐ $XXZ$ diamond chain are discussed. Such an impurity is formed by the $XXZ$ interaction between the interstitial Heisenberg dimers and the nearest‐neighbor Ising coupling between the nodal and interstitial spins. All the interaction parameters are different from those of the rest of the chain. By tailoring them, quantum entanglement and quantum coherence can be controlled and tuned. Therefore, the quantum resources—thermal entanglement and quantum coherence—of the model exhibit a clear performance improvement in comparison to the original model without impurities. It is demonstrated that quantum teleportation can be tuned by its inclusion. Thermal teleportation is modified in a significant way as well, and a strong increase in the average fidelity is observed. The exact solution is furnished by the use of the transfer‐matrix method.     

An Anderson Impurity Interacting with the Helical Edge States in a Quantum Spin Hall Insulator

Using the natural orbitals renormalization group(NORG)method,we investigate the screening of the local spin of an Anderson impurity interacting with the helical edge states in a quantum spin Hall insulator.It is found that there is a local spin formed at the impurity site and the local spin is completel.y screened by electrons in the quantum spin Hall insulator.Meanwhile,the local spin is screened dominantly by a single active natural orbital.We then show that the Kondo screening mechanism becomes transparent and simple in the framework of the natural orbitals formalism.We project the active natural orbital respectively into real space and momentum space to characterize its structure.We conilrm the spin-momentum locking property of the edge states based on the occupancy of a Bloch state on the edge to which the impurity couples.Furthermore,we study the dynamical property of the active natural orbital represented by the local density of states,from which we observe the Kondo resonance peak.     

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.     

Coherence of Disordered Bosonic Gas with Two-and Three-Body Interactions

We theoretically and numerically investigate the coherence of disordered bosonic gas with effective two-and three-body interactions within a two-site Bose-Hubbard model.By properly adjusting the two-and three-body interactions and the disorder,the coherence of the system exhibits new and interesting phenomena,including the resonance character of coherence against the disorder in the purely two-or three-body interactions system.More interestingly,the disorder and three-body interactions together can suppress the coherence of the purely three-body interactions system,which is different from the case in which the disorder and two-body interactions together can enhance the coherence in certain values of two-body interaction.Furthermore,when two-or threebody interactions are attractive or repulsive,the phase coherence exhibits completely different phenomena.In particular,if two-or three-body interactions are attractive,the coherence of the system can be significantly enhanced in certain regions.Correspondingly,the phase coherence of the system is strongly related to the effective interaction energy.The results provide a possible way for studying the coherence of bosonic gas with multi-atoms' interactions in the presence of the disorder.     

Interacting fermions in highly elongated harmonic traps

Quasi-one-dimensional two-component Fermi gases with effectively attractive and repulsive interactions are characterized for arbitrary interaction strength. The ground-state properties of the gas confined in highly elongated harmonic traps are determined within the local density approximation. For strong attractive effective interactions the existence of a molecular Tonks-Girardeau gas is predicted. The frequency of the lowest breathing mode is calculated as a function of the coupling strength for both attractive and repulsive interactions.     

库仑作用对同位旋分馏过程的影响

利用同位旋相关的量子分子动力学模型研究了中能重离子碰撞中库仑作用对同位旋分馏过程的影响.研究结果表明,在所研究的能区,无论是丰(缺)中子碰撞系统或者轻(重)反应系统,库仑作用都使同位旋分馏过程减弱,而这种影响主要来自于库仑作用对质子的排斥作用,使更多的质子发射,从而降低了气相中子–质子比所导致     

Persistent current and Drude weight for the one-dimensional Hubbard model from current lattice density functional theory

The Bethe ansatz local density approximation (LDA) to lattice density functional theory (LDFT) for the one-dimensional repulsive Hubbard model is extended to current-LDFT (CLDFT). The transport properties of mesoscopic Hubbard rings threaded by a magnetic flux are then systematically investigated by this scheme. In particular we present calculations of ground state energies, persistent currents and Drude weights for both a repulsive homogeneous and a single impurity Hubbard model. Our results for the ground state energies in the metallic phase compare favorably well with those obtained with numerically accurate many-body techniques. Also the dependence of the persistent currents on the Coulomb and the impurity interaction strength, and on the ring size are all well captured by LDA-CLDFT. Our study demonstrates the value of CLDFT in describing the transport properties of one-dimensional correlated electron systems. As its computational overheads are rather modest, we propose this method as a tool for studying problems where both disorder and interaction are present.