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.     

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     

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.     

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.     

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     

Breathing oscillations of Bose-Fermi mixtures with Yb atoms in the prolate deformed traps

We study the breathing oscillations in bose-fermi mixing gases with Yb atoms in the prolate deformed trap, which are realized in Kyoto group. We choose the three combinations of the Yb isotopes, ¹⁷⁰Yb–¹⁷¹Yb, ¹⁷⁰Yb–¹⁷³Yb and ¹⁷⁴Yb–¹⁷³Yb, whose boson-fermion interactions are weakly repulsive, strongly attractive and strongly repulsive. Then we calculate the collective oscillations in the deformed trap using a dynamical time-dependent approach, which is formulated with the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation and the Vlasov equation.     

Effect of interactions on harmonically confined Bose-Fermi mixtures in optical lattices

We investigate a Bose-Fermi mixture in a three-dimensional optical lattice, trapped in a harmonic potential. Using generalized dynamical mean-field theory, which treats the Bose-Bose and Bose-Fermi interaction in a fully nonperturbative way, we show that for experimentally relevant parameters a peak in the condensate fraction close to the point of vanishing Bose-Fermi interaction is reproduced within a single-band framework. We identify two physical mechanisms contributing to this effect: the spatial redistribution of particles when the interspecies interaction is changed and the reduced phase space for strong interactions, which results in a higher temperature at fixed entropy.     

Dipolar Excitations of a Trapped Bose-Fermi Mixture

We study the dipolar excitation of a trapped Bose-Fermi mixture at zero temperature, by using a scalingansatz formalism and Thomas-Fermi approximation at mean-field level. We show that both frequencies of the low-lying and high-lying modes are strongly affected by the Bose-Fermi interaction. Possible implication of our results to the recent experiment has been commented.     

Topological properties of one-dimensional hardcore Bose-Fermi mixture

We study the topological properties of a one-dimensional （1D） hardcore Bose-Fermi mixture using the exact diagonalization method. We firstly add a hardcore boson to a fermionic system and by examining the edge states we find that the quasi-particle manifests the topological properties of the system. Then we study a mixture with 7 fermions and 1 boson. We find that the mixture also exhibits topological properties and its behaviors are similar to that of the corresponding fermionic system. We present a qualitative explanation to understand such behaviors using the mapping between a hardcore boson and a spinless fermion. These results show the existence of topological properties in a 1D hardcore Bose-Fermi mixture and may be realized using cold atoms trapped in optical lattices experimentally.     

Dipolar Excitations of a Trapped Bose-Fermi Mixture

We study the dipolar excitation of a trapped Bose-Fermi mixture at zero temperature, by using a scaling ansatz formalism and Thomas-Fermi approximation at mean-field level. We show that both frequencies of the low-lying and high-lying modes are strongly affected by the Bose-Fermi interaction. Possible implication of our results to the recent experiment has been commented.     

Quadrupole oscillations in a quantum degenerate Bose–Fermi mixture

We study the collective dynamics in a degenerate Bose–Fermi mixture of ¹⁷⁴Yb and ¹⁷³Yb atoms. We excite collective oscillations by a sudden reduction of the trapping confinement and observe low m=0 quadrupole oscillations of condensates in ¹⁷⁴Yb. First the oscillations in ¹⁷⁴Yb atoms alone are investigated, and they are well described by the time-dependent Gross–Pitaevskii equation in the Thomas–Fermi approximation. Using the same procedure the quadrupole oscillations are excited for a ¹⁷⁴Yb–¹⁷³Yb Bose–Fermi mixture. In comparing data taken with and without fermionic ¹⁷³Yb atoms, the oscillation frequency of the quadrupole mode in the condensate decreases with the presence of ¹⁷³Yb atoms.     

Phase-ordering dynamics of binary mixtures with field-dependent mobility in shear flow

The effect of shear flow on the phase-ordering dynamics of a binary mixture with field-dependent mobility is investigated. The problem is addressed in the context of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation with an external velocity term, studied in self-consistent approximation. Assuming a scaling ansatz for the structure factor, the asymptotic behavior of the observables in the scaling regime can be analytically calculated. All the observables show log-time periodic oscillations which we interpret as due to a cyclical mechanism of stretching and break-up of domains. These oscillations are damped as consequence of the vanishing of the mobility in the bulk phase. Received 13 April 1999     

Coupled Korteweg de Vries solitary wave of superfluid Bose-Fermi mixture

In this paper, the solitary waves in superfluid Bose-Fermi mixture are investigated under the limited case of a BEC regime, a BCS regime and unitarity. By using the transverse perturbation method, a coupled Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation for the nonlinear solitary waves is derived. It is found that the scattering length between bosons and fermions has strong effect on the characters of the coupled solitary wave.     

Response of a system of strongly interacting particles to an inhomogeneous external field

We show that a system of N strongly interacting quantum particles in a parabolic confining potential can be unstable under the action of a time-dependent quadrupole external field. The instability leads to the generation or amplification of dipole oscillations. Parameters of the instability are independent of the number of particles and the inter-particle interaction.     

Random-phase approximation and its extension for the O(2) anharmonic oscillator

We apply the random-phase approximation (RPA) and its extension called renormalized RPA to the quantum anharmonic oscillator with an O(2) symmetry. We first obtain the equation for the RPA frequencies in the standard and in the renormalized RPAs using the equation-of-motion method. In the case where the ground state has a broken symmetry, we check the existence of a zero frequency in the standard and in the renormalized RPAs. Then we use a time-dependent approach where the standard-RPA frequencies are obtained as small oscillations arround the static solution in the time-dependent Hartree-Bogoliubov equation. We draw the parallel between the two approaches.Received: 8 July 2003, Published online: 5 January 2004PACS: 21.60.Jz Hartree-Fock and random-phase approximations - 24.10.Cn Many-body theory     

Geometric Phase in a Time-Dependent Bose-Fermi System

By using the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant theory, the geometric phase in a time-dependent Bose-Fermi system has been studied. It is found that the geometric phase has nothing to do with the field frequency and the coupling coefficient between the Boson and Fermion.     

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.     

Bose-Einstein condensate in a random potential

An optical speckle potential is used to investigate the static and dynamic properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of disorder. With small levels of disorder, stripes are observed in the expanded density profile and strong damping of dipole and quadrupole oscillations is seen. Uncorrelated frequency shifts of the two modes are measured and are explained using a sum-rules approach and by the numerical solution of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.     

Ultracold heteronuclear molecules and ferroelectric superfluids

We analyze the possibility of a ferroelectric transition in heteronuclear molecules consisting of Bose-Bose, Bose-Fermi, or Fermi-Fermi atom pairs. This transition is characterized by the appearance of a spontaneous electric polarization below a critical temperature. We discuss the existence of a ferroelectric Fermi liquid phase for Fermi molecules and the existence of a ferroelectric superfluid phase for Bose molecules characterized by the coexistence of ferroelectric and superfluid orders. Lastly, we propose an experiment to detect ferroelectric correlations through the observation of coherent dipole radiation pulses.     

Superfluid and insulating phases of fermion mixtures in optical lattices

The ground state phase diagram of fermion mixtures in optical lattices is analyzed as a function of interaction strength, fermion filling factor, and tunneling parameters. In addition to standard superfluid, phase-separated or coexisting superfluid -- excess-fermion phases found in homogeneous or harmonically trapped systems, fermions in optical lattices have several insulating phases, including a molecular Bose-Mott insulator (BMI), a Fermi-Pauli (band) insulator (FPI), a phase-separated BMI-FPI mixture or a Bose-Fermi checkerboard (BFC). The molecular BMI phase is the fermion mixture counterpart of the atomic BMI found in atomic Bose systems, the BFC or BMI-FPI phases exist in Bose-Fermi mixtures, and lastly the FPI phase is particular to the Fermi nature of the constituent atoms of the mixture.