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arXiv:1809.06340 · Physical Review A

Efimov-enhanced Kondo effect in alkali-metal and alkaline-earth-metal atomic gas mixtures

Juan Yao, Hui Zhai, Ren Zhang

Published Jan 16, 2019• 9 citations
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Abstract

A recent experiment has observed Feshbach resonances between alkali and alkaline-earth-metal atoms. These Feshbach resonances are insensitive to the nuclear spin of alkaline-earth-metal atoms. Utilizing this feature, we propose to take this system as a candidate to perform quantum simulation of the Kondo effect. An alkali-metal atom can form a molecule with an alkaline-earth-metal atom with different nuclear spins, which plays the role of spin-exchange scattering responsible for the Kondo effect. Furthermore, we point out that the existence of three-body bound state and atom-molecule resonance due to the Efimov effect can enhance this spin-exchange scattering and therefore enhance the Kondo effect. We discuss this mechanism first with a three-body problem in free space and then demonstrate that the same mechanism still holds when the alkali-metal atom is localized by an external trap and becomes an impurity embedded in the alkaline-earth-metal atomic gases.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.99.010701

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A recent experiment has observed Feshbach resonances between alkali and alkaline-earth-metal atoms. These Feshbach resonances are insensitive to the nuclear spin of alkaline-earth-metal atoms. Utilizing this feature, we propose to take this system as a candidate to perform quantum simulation of the Kondo effect. An alkali-metal atom can form a molecule with an alkaline-earth-metal atom with different nuclear spins, which plays the role of spin-exchange scattering responsible for the Kondo effect. Furthermore, we point out that the existence of three-body bound state and atom-molecule resonance due to the Efimov effect can enhance this spin-exchange scattering and therefore enhance the Kondo effect. We discuss this mechanism first with a three-body problem in free space and then demonstrate that the same mechanism still holds when the alkali-metal atom is localized by an external trap and becomes an impurity embedded in the alkaline-earth-metal atomic gases.
Alkaline-earth-metal atoms have a long-lived electronic excited state, and when atoms in this excited state are localized in the Fermi sea of ground-state atoms by an external potential, they serve as magnetic impurities, due to the spin-exchange interaction between the excited- and the ground-state atoms. This can give rise to the Kondo effect. However, in order to achieve this effect in current atomic gas experiments, it requires the Kondo temperature to be increased to a sizable portion of the Fermi temperature. In this paper we calculate the confinement-induced resonance (CIR) for the spin-exchanging interaction between the ground and the excited states of the alkaline-earth-metal atoms and propose that the spin-exchange interaction can be strongly enhanced by utilizing the CIR. We analyze this system by the renormalization-group approach and show that near a CIR, the Kondo temperature can be significantly enhanced.
The Kondo effect describes the spin-exchange interaction between localized impurities and itinerant fermions. The ultracold alkaline-earth atomic gas provides a natural platform for quantum simulation of the Kondo model, utilizing its long-lived clock state and the nuclear-spin exchange interaction between clock state and ground state. One of the key issue now is whether the Kondo temperature can be high enough to be reached in current experiments, for which we have proposed to use transverse confinement to confine atoms into a one-dimensional tube and to use the confinement-induced resonance to enhance Kondo coupling. In this work, we further consider the (1+0)(1+0)(1+0)-dimensional scattering problem when the clock state is further confined by an axial harmonic confinement. We show that this axial confinement for the clock-state atoms not only plays a role for localizing them, but can also act as an additional control knob to reach the confinement-induced resonance. We show that, in the presence of both the transverse and the axial confinements, the confinement-induced resonance can be reached in the practical conditions and the Kondo effect can be attainable in this system.
We exactly solve the two-body and three-body problems in the mixture of alkaline-earth-metal(like) (AE) and alkali-metal atomic gases in the presence of three-dimensional isotropic spin-orbit (SO) coupling. The SO coupling is implemented by the Raman scheme that couples the ground state of the AE atom with different nuclear spin. The interaction between AE and alkali-metal atoms is tuned to be near resonant by Feshbach resonance, while the interaction between the two AE atoms is negligible. We present the Skorniakov--Ter-Martirosian (STM) equation for the three-body system composed of two SO coupled AE atoms and one alkali-metal atom. By solving the STM equation in the zero angular momentum sector, we obtain the energy spectrum and find a nonuniversal Efimov trimer and a universal Kartavtsev-Malykh (KM) trimer in different parameter windows of the mass ratio. In the region where the KM trimer is present, strong SO coupling can stabilize the KM trimer to be the ground state, such that experimental realization and observation can be expected.
For a mixture of alkali-earth atomic gas in the long-lived excited state ^{3}P_{0} and the ground state ^{1}S_{0}, in addition to nuclear spin, another "orbital" index is introduced to distinguish these two internal states. In this Letter we propose a mechanism to induce Feshbach resonance between two atoms with different orbital and nuclear spin quantum numbers. Two essential ingredients are the interorbital spin-exchange process and orbital dependence of the Landé g factors. Here the orbital degrees of freedom plays a similar role as the electron spin degree of freedom in magnetic Feshbach resonance in alkali-metal atoms. This resonance is particularly accessible for the ^{173}Yb system. The BCS-BEC crossover in this system requires two fermion pairing order parameters, and displays a significant difference compared to that in an alkali-metal system.
Abstract We give a detailed and self-contained description of a recently developed theoretical and numerical method for the simulation of three identical bosonic alkali-metal atoms near a Feshbach resonance, where the Efimov effect is induced. The method is based on a direct construction of the off-shell two-body transition matrix from exact eigenfunctions of the embedded two-body Hamiltonians, obtained using realistic parameterizations of the interaction potentials which accurately reproduce the molecular energy levels. The transition matrix is then inserted into the appropriate three-body integral equations, which may be efficiently solved on a computer. We focus especially on the power of our method in including rigorously the effects of multichannel physics on the three-body problem, which are usually accounted for only by various approximations. We demonstrate the method for 7Li, where we recently showed that a correct inclusion of this multichannel physics resolves the long-standing disagreement between theory and experiment regarding the Efimovian three-body parameter. We analyze the Efimovian enhancement of the three-body recombination rate on both sides of the Feshbach resonance, revealing strong sensitivity to the spin structure of the model thus indicating the prevalence of three-body spin-exchange physics. Finally, we discuss an extension of our methodology to the calculation of three-body bound-state energies.
Motivated by recent progress on ultracold alkaline-earth atoms towards the goal of simulating Kondo physics, in this work we exactly solve the few-body problem of one and two trapped fermions in one dimension interacting with a localized impurity under tunable spin-exchange interaction. It is found that depending on the sign of the spin-exchange coupling, i.e., ferromagnetic (FM) or antiferromagnetic (AFM), the attractive and repulsive branches can hold different magnetic structures. For the two-fermion case, we demonstrate the Kondo screening effect for the attractive branch with AFM coupling, and show that such screening is absent for the ground state with FM coupling. Moreover, we find a sequence of FM upper branches in the AFM coupling side. These FM states are orthogonal to all other attractive branches and their wave functions feature a full spin-charge separation. The effect of an additional contact interaction and the extension of our results to many particles are also discussed. This work reveals the intriguing physics uniquely associated with the spin-exchange interaction in the few-body point of view, which can be readily explored in the experiment of ultracold alkaline-earth atoms.