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arXiv:1312.0810 · Physical Review A

Moving perturbation in a one-dimensional Fermi gas

Anne-Maria Visuri, DH Kim, J. J. Kinnunen, Francesco Massel, Päivi Törmä

Published Nov 24, 2014• 3 citations
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Abstract

We simulate a balanced attractively interacting two-component Fermi gas in a one-dimensional lattice perturbed with a moving potential well or barrier. Using the time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) method, we study different velocities of the perturbation and distinguish two velocity regimes based on clear differences in the time evolution of particle densities and the pair correlation function. We show that, in the slow regime, the densities deform as particles are either attracted by the potential well or repelled by the barrier, and a wave front of hole or particle excitations propagates at the maximum group velocity. Simultaneously, the initial pair correlations are broken and coherence over different sites is lost. In contrast, in the fast regime, the densities are not considerably deformed and the pair correlations are preserved.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.90.051603

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We study the dynamics of a one-dimensional Bose gas after a sudden change of the interaction strength from zero to a finite value using the numerical time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) algorithm. It is shown that despite the integrability of the system, local quantities such as the two-particle correlation g (2) ( x , x ) attain steady-state values in a short characteristic time inversely proportional to the Tonks parameter γ and the square of the density. The asymptotic values are very close to those of a finite temperature grand canonical ensemble, with a local temperature corresponding to the initial energy and density. Non-local density–density correlations, however, approach a steady state on a much larger time scale determined by the finite propagation velocity of oscillatory correlation waves.
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We study spinless fermions with repulsive nearest-neighbor interactions perturbed by an impurity particle or a local potential quench. Using the numerical time-evolving block decimation method and a simplified analytic model, we show that the perturbations create a soliton-antisoliton pair. If solitons are already present in the bath, the two excitations have a drastically different dynamics: The antisoliton does not annihilate with the solitons and is therefore confined close to its origin while the soliton excitation propagates. We discuss the consequences for experiments with ultracold gases.
We show that in the sudden expansion of a spin-balanced two-component Fermi gas in an optical lattice induced by releasing particles from a trap, over a wide parameter regime, the radius Rn of the particle cloud grows linearly in time. This allow us to define the expansion velocity Vex from Rn = Vext. The goal of this work is to clarify the dependence of the expansion velocity on the initial conditions which we establish from time-dependent density matrix renormalization group simulations, both for a box trap and a harmonic trap. As a prominent result, the presence of a Mott-insulating region leaves clear fingerprints in the expansion velocity. Our predictions can be verified in experiments with ultra-cold atoms.
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