arXiv:1809.01592 · Physical Review A
Universal off-diagonal long-range-order behavior for a trapped Tonks-Girardeau gas
A. Colcelli, Jacopo Viti, Giuseppe Mussardo, Andrea Trombettoni
Abstract
The scaling of the largest eigenvalue ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{0}$ of the one-body density matrix of a system with respect to its particle number $N$ defines an exponent $\mathcal{C}$ and a coefficient $\mathcal{B}$ via the asymptotic relation ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{0}\ensuremath{\sim}\mathcal{B}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}{N}^{\mathcal{C}}$. The case $\mathcal{C}=1$ corresponds to off-diagonal long-range order. For a one-dimensional homogeneous Tonks-Girardeau gas, a well-known result also confirmed by bosonization gives instead $\mathcal{C}=1/2$. Here we investigate the inhomogeneous case, initially addressing the behavior of $\mathcal{C}$ in the presence of a general external trapping potential $V$. We argue that the value $\mathcal{C}=1/2$ characterizes the hard-core system independently of the nature of the potential $V$. We then define the exponents $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ and $\ensuremath{\beta}$, which describe the scaling of the peak of the momentum distribution with $N$ and the natural orbital corresponding to ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{0}$, respectively, and we derive the scaling relation $\ensuremath{\gamma}+2\ensuremath{\beta}=\mathcal{C}$. Taking as a specific case the power-law potential $V(x)\ensuremath{\propto}{x}^{2n}$, we give analytical formulas for $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ and $\ensuremath{\beta}$ as functions of $n$. Analytical predictions for the coefficient $\mathcal{B}$ are also obtained. These formulas are derived by exploiting a recent field theoretical formulation and checked against numerical results. The agreement is excellent.