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arXiv:1603.02395 · Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Damping of the Higgs and Nambu–Goldstone modes of superfluid Bose gases at finite temperatures

Kazuma Nagao, Ippei Danshita

Published Jun 1, 2016• 13 citations
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Abstract

We study collective modes of superfluid Bose gases in optical lattices at commensurate fillings.We focus on the vicinity of the quantum phase transition to the Mott insulator, where there exists the Higgs amplitude mode in addition to the Nambu-Goldstone phase mode associated with the spontaneous U(1) symmetry breaking.We analyze finite-temperature effects on the damping of the collective modes by using an effective spin-1 model and field-theoretical methods based on the finite-temperature Green's function.We calculate the damping rates up to 1-loop order and evaluate them analytically and numerically.We show that the damping rate of the Higgs mode increases with increasing temperature but it remains underdamped up to the typical temperature achieved in experiments.Moreover, we find that the Nambu-Goldstone mode attenuates via a Landau damping process resulting from interactions with the Higgs mode and it can be overdamped at the typical temperature in a certain parameter region..............

DOI
10.1093/ptep/ptw061

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We study collective modes of superfluid Bose gases in optical lattices at commensurate fillings.We focus on the vicinity of the quantum phase transition to the Mott insulator, where there exists the Higgs amplitude mode in addition to the Nambu-Goldstone phase mode associated with the spontaneous U(1) symmetry breaking.We analyze finite-temperature effects on the damping of the collective modes by using an effective spin-1 model and field-theoretical methods based on the finite-temperature Green's function.We calculate the damping rates up to 1-loop order and evaluate them analytically and numerically.We show that the damping rate of the Higgs mode increases with increasing temperature but it remains underdamped up to the typical temperature achieved in experiments.Moreover, we find that the Nambu-Goldstone mode attenuates via a Landau damping process resulting from interactions with the Higgs mode and it can be overdamped at the typical temperature in a certain parameter region..............
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We study collective modes of superfluid Bose gases in optical lattices combined with potential barriers. We assume that the system is in the vicinity of the quantum phase transition to a Mott insulator at a commensurate filling, where emergent particle-hole symmetry gives rise to two types of collective mode, namely a gapless Nambu-Goldstone (NG) phase mode and a gapful Higgs amplitude mode. We consider two kinds of potential barrier: One does not break the particle-hole symmetry while the other does. In the presence of the former barrier, we find Higgs bound states that have binding energies lower than the bulk Higgs gap and are localized around the barrier. We analyze tunneling properties of the NG mode incident to both barriers to show that the latter barrier couples the Higgs bound states with the NG mode, leading to Fano resonance mediated by the bound states. Thanks to the universality of the underlying field theory, it is expected that Higgs bound states may be present also in other condensed-matter systems with a particle-hole symmetry and spontaneous breaking of a continuous symmetry, such as quantum dimer antiferromagnets, superconductors, and charge-density-wave materials.
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We theoretically study the collective excitations in a spin-1 XYXYXY model with a quadratic Zeeman term and a long-range interaction that decays algebraically with the distance. Using the quantum-field theory based on the finite-temperature Green's function formalism, we analyze properties of the Nambu-Goldstone (NG) and Higgs modes in order to analytically evaluate the damping rate of the Higgs mode in the XYXYXY ferromagnetic ordered phase near the quantum phase transition to the disordered phase. When the power of the algebraic decay is 3 as in the case of dipole-dipole interactions in Rydberg-atom systems, we show that at two dimensions the excitation energy of the Higgs mode exhibits a linear dispersion whereas the dispersion of the NG mode becomes proportional to the square root of the momentum. We find that the damping of the Higgs mode is significantly suppressed by the long-range interaction. We also propose how to excite and probe the Higgs mode in Rydberg-atom experiments.
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With very few exceptions (such as the centre-of-mass dipole mode), collective oscillations in trapped superfluid Bose gases are damped. In the “collisionless” region the damping is second order in the interaction strength. There are three possible components. One is Beliaev damping, which is due to the decay of a single excitation into two excitations; this can occur even at T = 0. In addition, there is Landau damping, which is due to a collective mode scattering from thermally excited excitations. This process only occurs at finite temperatures but quickly becomes the dominant damping mechanism as the temperature increases. Both Landau and Beliaev damping arise naturally from the imaginary part of the Beliaev second-order self-energies, as given in (5.40) in the case of a uniform Bose gas. Finally there is the damping that arises from the C 22 and C 12 collision processes; this is discussed in Chapters 8, 12 and 19. In Chapter 12 we calculated the damping of various condensate modes at finite temperatures using direct numerical simulations of the ZNG equations. These numerical results were generally in very good agreement with the available experimental data. From a theoretical perspective, one advantage of the simulations is that the Landau damping contribution can be isolated simply by setting the C 12 and C 22 collision terms to zero. After providing an introduction to Landau damping in uniform Bose gases in Section 13.1, we present in Section 13.2 a detailed discussion of Landau damping based on a general formula in terms of Bogoliubov–Popov excitations. This discussion makes it clear that the Landau damping of condensate oscillations arises from the interaction with a thermal cloud of excitations.