arXiv:2009.03319 · Physical Review Letters
Exactly Solvable System of One-Dimensional Trapped Bosons with Short- and Long-Range Interactions
Mathieu Beau, S. M. Pittman, G. E. Astrakharchik, Adolfo del Campo
Abstract
We introduce a model of trapped bosons with contact interactions as well as Coulomb repulsion or gravitational attraction in one spatial dimension. We find the exact ground-state energy and many-body wave function. The density profile and the pair-correlation function are sampled using Monte Carlo method and show a rich variety of regimes with crossovers between them. Strong attraction leads to a trapped McGuire quantum soliton. Weak repulsion results in an incompressible Laughlin-like fluid with flat density, well reproduced by a Gross-Pitaevskii equation with long-range interactions. Stronger repulsion induces Friedel oscillations and the eventual formation of a Wigner crystal.