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arXiv:1410.8103 · Physical Review A

Energy, contact, and density profiles of one-dimensional fermions in a harmonic trap via nonuniform-lattice Monte Carlo calculations

Casey Berger, E. R. Anderson, Joaquín E. Drut

Published May 20, 2015• 21 citations
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Abstract

We determine the ground-state energy and Tan's contact of attractively interacting few-fermion systems in a one-dimensional harmonic trap, for a range of couplings and particle numbers. Complementing those results, we show the corresponding density profiles. The calculations were performed with a lattice Monte Carlo approach based on a nonuniform discretization of space, defined via Gauss-Hermite quadrature points and weights. This particular coordinate basis is natural for systems in harmonic traps, and can be generalized to traps of other shapes. In all cases, it yields a position-dependent coupling and a corresponding nonuniform Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. The resulting path integral is performed with hybrid Monte Carlo as a proof of principle for calculations at finite temperature and in higher dimensions. We present results for $N=4,...,20$ particles (although the method can be extended beyond that) to cover the range from few- to many-particle systems. This method is exact up to statistical and systematic uncertainties, which we account for---and thus also represents an ab initio calculation of this system, providing a benchmark for other methods and a prediction for ultracold-atom experiments.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.91.053618

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We determine the ground-state energy and Tan's contact of attractively interacting few-fermion systems in a one-dimensional harmonic trap, for a range of couplings and particle numbers. Complementing those results, we show the corresponding density profiles. The calculations were performed with a lattice Monte Carlo approach based on a nonuniform discretization of space, defined via Gauss-Hermite quadrature points and weights. This particular coordinate basis is natural for systems in harmonic traps, and can be generalized to traps of other shapes. In all cases, it yields a position-dependent coupling and a corresponding nonuniform Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. The resulting path integral is performed with hybrid Monte Carlo as a proof of principle for calculations at finite temperature and in higher dimensions. We present results for N=4,...,20N=4,...,20N=4,...,20 particles (although the method can be extended beyond that) to cover the range from few- to many-particle systems. This method is exact up to statistical and systematic uncertainties, which we account for---and thus also represents an ab initio calculation of this system, providing a benchmark for other methods and a prediction for ultracold-atom experiments.
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Abstract Motivated by the realization of hard-wall boundary conditions in experiments with ultracold atoms, we investigate the ground-state properties of spin-1/2 fermions with attractive interactions in a one-dimensional box. We use lattice Monte Carlo methods to determine essential quantities like the energy, which we compute as a function of coupling strength and particle number in the regime from few to many particles. Many-fermion systems bound by hard walls display non-trivial density profiles characterized by so-called Friedel oscillations (which are similar to those observed in harmonic traps). In non-interacting systems, the characteristic length scale of the oscillations is set by ( 2 k F ) − 1 , where k F is the Fermi momentum, while repulsive interactions tend to generate Wigner-crystal oscillations of period ( 4 k F ) − 1 . Based on the non-interacting result, we find a remarkably simple parametrization of the density profiles of the attractively interacting case, which we generalize to the one-body density matrix. While the total momentum is not a conserved quantity in the presence of hard walls, the magnitude of the momentum does provide a good quantum number. We are therefore able to provide a detailed characterization of the (quasi-)momentum distribution, which displays rather robust discontinuity at the Fermi surface. In addition, we determine the spatially varying on-site density–density correlation, which in turn yields Tan’s contact density and, upon integration, Tan’s contact. As is well known, the latter fully determines the short-range correlations and plays a crucial role in a multitude of equilibrium and non-equilibrium sum rules.