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arXiv:1504.04053 · Physical Review A

Contact and static structure factor for bosonic and fermionic mixtures

R. E. Barfknecht, Ioannis Brouzos, Angela Foerster

Published Apr 30, 2015• 15 citations
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Abstract

We study measurable quantities of bosonic and fermionic mixtures on a one-dimensional ring. These few-body ensembles consist of majority atoms obeying certain statistics (Fermi or Bose) and an impurity atom in a different hyperfine state. The repulsive interactions between majority-impurity and majority-majority are varied from weak to strong. We show that the majority-impurity repulsion is mainly responsible for the loss of coherence in the strongly interacting regime. The momentum distribution follows the $\mathcal{C}/{p}^{4}$ universal behavior for the high-momentum tail, but the contact $\mathcal{C}$ is strongly dependent on the strength of the majority-impurity and in a different way on the majority-majority interactions. The static structure factor of the majority atoms exposes a low-momentum peak for strong majority-impurity repulsion, which is attributed to an effective attraction not expected for purely repulsive forces.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.91.043640

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