We investigate the higher repulsive branches of one-dimensional (1D) bosonic and fermionic quantum gases beyond the super-Tonks-Girardeau regime, utilizing the Bethe-Ansatz method and exact diagonalization of small trapped clusters. In contrast to the well-studied lowest branches that are characterized by spin-charge separation, we demonstrate the emergence of strong spin-charge correlation in all higher branches with hard-core interactions. This manifests in distinct quasi-momentum distributions and energy spectra for bosons and spin-1/2 fermions, despite their fermionization. Furthermore, trapped fermions in higher branches exhibit novel spin textures, intricately linked to charge excitations, necessitating a coupled multi-chain description beyond single effective spin-chain models. Our findings unveil a rich interplay between spin and charge degrees of freedom in highly excited 1D systems, opening avenues for exploring novel quantum phenomena beyond the conventional paradigm of low-lying states.
We investigate the higher repulsive branches of one-dimensional (1D) bosonic and fermionic quantum gases beyond the super-Tonks-Girardeau regime, utilizing the Bethe-Ansatz method and exact diagonalization of small trapped clusters. In contrast to the well-studied lowest branches that are characterized by spin-charge separation, we demonstrate the emergence of strong spin-charge correlation in all higher branches with hard-core interactions. This manifests in distinct quasi-momentum distributions and energy spectra for bosons and spin-1/2 fermions, despite their fermionization. Furthermore, trapped fermions in higher branches exhibit novel spin textures, intricately linked to charge excitations, necessitating a coupled multi-chain description beyond single effective spin-chain models. Our findings unveil a rich interplay between spin and charge degrees of freedom in highly excited 1D systems, opening avenues for exploring novel quantum phenomena beyond the conventional paradigm of low-lying states.
Quantum many-body physics has been studied for many decades. A lot of intriguing phenomena have been observed and theories have been developed. Yet many problems remain unsolved, which is largely due to a lack of general efficient classical computation method. One-dimensional (1D) systems have also drawn much attention over the past few decades. One reason is that many unique strongly correlated quantum phenomena only appear in low dimensions. Another reason is that many exact results can be obtained in 1D for cross benchmarking, such as Bethe Ansatz, Bosonization, Bose-Fermi mapping, etc. In addition, many numerical methods, such as Matrix-Product-State based and Monte Carlo methods, work most efficiently in 1D. In recent years, 1D quantum gases have been realized in many cold atom labs, providing experimental motivation for their studies. One of the most mysterious assumptions about a system of identical quantum particles is that the wavefunction must be symmetric (for bosons) or anti-symmetric (for fermions). This means that no two fermions can occupy the same state, while multiple occupancy is allowed for bosons. Bosons and fermions are therefore generally very different. But in 1D this distinction could become rather subtle, provided that the bosonic multiple occupancy is suppressed, which can happen if strong repulsion exists between them. However, when considering spin degrees of freedom, things become more complicated. In this work, we develop a generalized Bose-Fermi mapping theory, under which, the charge degrees of freedom is mapped to a spinless fermions, while the spin degrees of freedom to an effective spin chain. This mapping works for arbitrary spin, arbitrary trapping potentials, arbitrary spin-dependent interaction potential, and for either spinor bosons or fermions. In the strong interaction limit, the wavefunction of the system is represented by the strong coupling ansatz wavefunction (SCAW), which takes the form of a direct product of spinless fermions wavefunction and spin wavefunction. Using this mapping technique, we study the dynamics and collective modes of the system. Furthermore, we develop a very efficient method to calculate the one-body density matrix, from which we can calculate the momentum distribution of the system.
At low temperature, collective excitations of one-dimensional (1D) interacting fermions exhibit spin-charge separation, a unique feature predicted by the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) theory, but a rigorous understanding remains challenging. Using the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) formalism, we analytically derive universal properties of a 1D repulsive spin-1/2 Fermi gas with arbitrary interaction strength. We show how spin-charge separation emerges from the exact TBA formalism, and how it is disrupted by the interplay between the two degrees of freedom that brings us beyond the TLL paradigm. Based on the exact low-lying excitation spectra, we further evaluate the spin and charge dynamical structure factors (DSFs). The peaks of the DSFs exhibit distinguishable propagating velocities of spin and charge as functions of interaction strength, which can be observed by Bragg spectroscopy with ultracold atoms.
Abstract It has been shown (Yang and You 2011 Chin. Phys. Lett. 28 020503 ) that at zero temperature the ground state of the one-dimensional (1D) w -component Fermi gas coincides with that of the spinless Bose gas in the limit . This behavior was experimentally evidenced through quasi-1D tightly trapping ultracold 173 Yb atoms in a recent paper (Pagano et al 2014 Nat. Phys. 10 198 ). However, understanding of low-temperature behavior of Fermi gases with a repulsive interaction requires spin-charge separated conformal field theories of an effective Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid and an antiferromagnetic SU ( w ) Heisenberg spin chain. Here we analytically derive universal thermodynamics of 1D strongly repulsive fermionic gases with SU ( w ) symmetry via the Yang–Yang thermodynamic Bethe ansatz method. The analytical free energy and magnetic properties of the systems at low temperature in a weak magnetic field are obtained through the Wiener–Hopf method. In particular, the free energy essentially manifests the spin-charge separated conformal field theories for high-symmetry systems with arbitrary repulsive interaction strength. We also find that the sound velocity of the Fermi gases in the large w limit coincides with that for the spinless Bose gas, whereas the spin velocity vanishes quickly as w becomes large. This indicates strong suppression of the Fermi exclusion statistics by the commutativity feature among the w -component fermions with different spin states in the Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid phase. Moreover, the equations of state and critical behavior of physical quantities at finite temperature are analytically derived in terms of the polylogarithm functions in the quantum critical region.
We consider a strongly interacting one-dimensional (1D) Bose-Fermi mixture confined in a harmonic trap. It consists of a Tonks-Girardeau (TG) gas (1D Bose gas with repulsive hard-core interactions) and of a noninteracting Fermi gas (1D spin-aligned Fermi gas), both species interacting through hard-core repulsive interactions. Using a generalized Bose-Fermi mapping, we determine the one-body density matrices, exact particle density profiles, momentum distributions, and behavior of the mixture under 1D expansion when opening the trap. In real space, bosons and fermions do not display any phase separation: the respective density profiles extend over the same region and they both present a number of peaks equal to the total number of particles in the trap. In momentum space the bosonic component has the typical narrow TG profile, while the fermionic component shows a broad distribution with fermionic oscillations at small momenta. Due to the large boson-fermion repulsive interactions, both the bosonic and the fermionic momentum distributions decay as $C{p}^{\ensuremath{-}4}$ at large momenta, like in the case of a pure bosonic TG gas. The coefficient C is related to the two-body density matrix and to the bosonic concentration in the mixture. When opening the trap, both momentum distributions ``fermionize'' under expansion and turn into that of a Fermi gas with a particle number equal to the total number of particles in the mixture.
Fermions in one dimension are vastly different from their higher-dimension counterparts. At the same time, many theoretical models in one dimension have the luxury of being integrable and exactly solvable, which makes them excellent test beds for quantum simulation. In using these test beds, we can understand and improve on the techniques of quantum simulation so that we move towards solving difficult problems that cannot be solved using other methods due to the sheer complexity of these systems. In this work, we prepare one-dimensional fermions using cold atom techniques and probe low-energy excitations in such systems. We do so using the technique of Bragg spectroscopy, which enables us to probe the dynamical structure factor of the system directly, which in turn tells us about the density-density and spin-density correlations in the system. Utilizing the extreme tunability of cold atom experiments, we can study different regimes of these 1D Fermi gases. In particular, moving on from our previous investigations in the repulsive interactions, we investigate the attractive interaction side, where the attraction of the fermions causes bound states to form. The binding energy of these bound states causes a gap in the spin excitation, a hallmark of a new class of model: Luther-Emery liquid. We investigate weakly attractive Fermi gases close to the Luther-Emery limit and observe an inversion of the spin-charge separation hierarchy compared to the repulsive side, confirming expectations from exact Bethe ansatz solutions for the homogeneous gas at zero temperature, in which weakly bound fermion pairs are predicted. The result presented here provides insight into physics in one dimension, an important realm that is well known to host many exciting physics and exotic phases.
Strongly interacting one-dimensional (1D) Bose--Fermi mixtures form a tunable XXZ spin chain. Within the spin-chain model developed here, all properties of these systems can be calculated from states representing the ordering of the bosons and fermions within the atom chain and from the ground-state wave function of spinless noninteracting fermions. We validate the model by means of an exact diagonalization of the full few-body Hamiltonian in the strongly interacting regime. Using the model, we explore the phase diagram of the atom chain as a function of the boson-boson (BB) and boson-fermion (BF) interaction strengths and calculate the densities, momentum distributions, and trap-level occupancies for up to 17 particles. In particular, we find antiferromagnetic (AFM) and ferromagnetic (FM) order and a demixing of the bosons and fermions in certain interaction regimes. We find, however, no demixing for equally strong BB and BF interactions, in agreement with earlier calculations that combined the Bethe ansatz with a local-density approximation.