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arXiv:1902.07025 · Physical Review A

Anomalous frequency shifts in a one-dimensional trapped Bose gas

Manuel Valiente, V. Pastukhov

Published May 13, 2019• 18 citations
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Abstract

We consider a system of interacting bosons in one dimension at a two-body resonance. This system, which is weakly interacting, is known to give rise to effective three-particle interactions, whose dynamics is similar to that of a two-dimensional Bose gas with two-body interactions, and exhibits an identical scale anomaly. We consider the experimentally relevant scenario of a harmonically trapped system. We solve the three-body problem exactly and evaluate the shifts in the frequency of the lowest compressional mode with respect to the dipole mode, and find that the effect of the anomaly is to increase the mode's frequency. We also consider the weak-coupling regime of the trapped many-boson problem and find, within the local density approximation, that the frequency of the lowest compressional mode is also shifted upward in this limit. Moreover, the anomalous frequency shifts are enhanced by the higher particle number to values that should be observable experimentally.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.99.053607

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A quantum anomaly manifests itself in the deviation of the breathing mode frequency from the scale invariant value of 2ω in two-dimensional harmonically trapped Fermi gases, where ω is the trapping frequency. Its recent experimental observation with cold atoms reveals an unexpected role played by the effective range of interactions, which requires a quantitative theoretical understanding. Here we provide accurate, benchmark results on a quantum anomaly from a few-body perspective. We consider the breathing mode of a few trapped interacting fermions in two dimensions up to six particles and present the mode frequency as a function of scattering length for a wide range of effective range. We show that the maximum quantum anomaly gradually reduces as the effective range increases while the maximum position shifts towards the weak-coupling limit. We extrapolate our few-body results to the many-body limit and find a good agreement with the experimental measurements. Our results may also be directly applicable to a few-fermion system prepared in microtraps and optical tweezers.
Following the idea of the density-functional approach, we develop a generalized Bogoliubov theory of an interacting Bose gas confined in a one-dimensional harmonic trap by using a local chemical potential, calculated with the Lieb-Liniger exact solution, as the exchange energy. At zero temperature, we use the theory to describe collective modes of a finite-particle system in all interaction regimes from the ideal gas limit to the mean-field Thomas-Fermi regime and to the strongly interacting Tonks-Girardeau regime. At finite temperature, we investigate the temperature dependence of collective modes in the weak-coupling regime by means of a Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory with Popov approximation. By emphasizing the effects of finite particle number and nonzero temperature on collective-mode frequencies, we compare our results with a recent experimental measurement [E. Haller et al., Science 325, 1224 (2009)] and some previous theoretical predictions. We show that the experimental data are still not fully explained within current theoretical framework.
Using generalized hydrodynamics, we study the thermal behavior of dipole-compression collective oscillations in a harmonically trapped one-dimensional (1D) Bose gas across the crossover from weak to strong repulsive contact interactions. A key scale controlling this behavior is the temperature of the hole-induced anomaly, associated with the thermal population of hole excitations. In contrast to classical hydrodynamics, which predicts a single oscillation mode, we find a beating signal composed of two frequencies. As the temperature increases, both frequencies evolve from the low-temperature phononic hydrodynamic regime toward the collisionless limit around the anomaly temperature, without saturating at the values expected in the high-temperature collisional hydrodynamic regime. The lower frequency originates from hole excitations and is associated to low-energy oscillations, while the higher frequency emerges from particle excitations and corresponds to the dipole-compression mode. The thermal evolution of the relative excitation strengths of the two frequencies reflects the changing population imbalance between particle and hole spectral states across the anomaly. Our results reveal direct connections between excitations, thermodynamics, correlations, dynamics, and interparticle collisions, and may prove relevant to other atomic, nuclear, solid-state, electronic, and spin systems exhibiting similar anomalies or thermal second-order phase transitions.
The frequency of the breathing mode of a two-dimensional Fermi gas with zero-range interactions in a harmonic confinement is fixed by the scale invariance of the Hamiltonian. Scale invariance is broken in the quantized theory by introducing the two-dimensional scattering length as a regulator. This is an example of a quantum anomaly in the field of ultracold atoms and leads to a shift of the frequency of the collective breathing mode of the cloud. In this work, we study this anomalous frequency shift for a two-component Fermi gas in the strongly interacting regime. We measure significant upwards shifts away from the scale-invariant result that show a strong interaction dependence. This observation implies that scale invariance is broken anomalously in the strongly interacting two-dimensional Fermi gas.
We consider two regimes where a trapped Bose gas behaves as a one-dimensional (1D) system. In the first one the Bose gas is microscopically described by 3D mean-field theory, but the trap is so elongated that it behaves as a 1D gas with respect to low-frequency collective modes. In the second regime we assume that the 1D gas is truly 1D and that it is properly described by the Lieb-Liniger model. In both regimes we find the frequency of the lowest compressional mode by solving the hydrodynamic equations. This is done by making use of a method which allows us to find analytical or quasianalytical solutions of these equations for a large class of models approaching very closely the actual equation of state of the Bose gas. We find an excellent agreement with the recent results of Menotti and Stringari obtained from a sum-rule approach.
By using a sum-rule approach we investigate the transition between the hydrodynamic and the collisionless regime of the collective modes in a one-dimensional (1D) harmonically trapped Bose gas. Both the weakly interacting gas and the Tonks-Girardeau limits are considered. We predict that the excitation of the dipole compression mode is characterized in the high-temperature collisionless regime by a beating signal of two different frequencies (${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{z}$ and $3{\ensuremath{\omega}}_{z}$), while in the high-temperature collisional regime, the excitation consists of a single frequency ($\sqrt{7}{\ensuremath{\omega}}_{z}$). This behavior differs from the case of the lowest breathing mode whose excitation consists of a single frequency ($2{\ensuremath{\omega}}_{z}$) in both regimes. Our predictions for the dipole compression mode open promising perspectives for the experimental investigation of collisional effects in 1D configurations.