We investigate the coherence and correlations of many-body states appearing in topological pumping in a one-dimensional Bose gas. By analyzing the system at zero and infinite interaction strengths, we reveal a rescaling of momentum distributions accompanied by a self-similar behavior in first- and second-order correlation functions. In excited states of non-interacting bosons, the momentum distribution shows a comb-like structure similar to that of non-interacting fermions but at a higher density. This is mirrored by Friedel oscillations in the one-body density matrix. At the same time, the density-density correlations still exhibit the bosonic enhancement. Our work illustrates how topological pumping induces a nontrivial mapping between bosonic and fermionic correlations.
We investigate the coherence and correlations of many-body states appearing in topological pumping in a one-dimensional Bose gas. By analyzing the system at zero and infinite interaction strengths, we reveal a rescaling of momentum distributions accompanied by a self-similar behavior in first- and second-order correlation functions. In excited states of non-interacting bosons, the momentum distribution shows a comb-like structure similar to that of non-interacting fermions but at a higher density. This is mirrored by Friedel oscillations in the one-body density matrix. At the same time, the density-density correlations still exhibit the bosonic enhancement. Our work illustrates how topological pumping induces a nontrivial mapping between bosonic and fermionic correlations.
We investigate the coherence and correlations of many-body states appearing in topological pumping in a one-dimensional Bose gas. By analyzing the system at zero and infinite interaction strengths, we reveal a rescaling of momentum distributions accompanied by a self-similar behavior in first- and second-order correlation functions. In the excited states of noninteracting bosons, the momentum distribution shows a comblike structure similar to that of noninteracting fermions but at a higher density. This is mirrored by Friedel oscillations in the one-body density matrix. At the same time, the density-density correlations still exhibit a bosonic enhancement. Our work illustrates how topological pumping induces a nontrivial mapping between bosonic and fermionic correlations.
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.
Abstract We study the expansion of a one-dimensional boson gas by initialising it in a small region of a chain, and then suddenly allowing it to expand into the remainder of the chain. We consider three initial ground-state configurations: the Mott insulator, the conventional superfluid, whose momentum density is sharply peaked at zero momentum, and the cat-like state with momentum peaks at ±π/2, produced by kinetic driving, the latter being a particular case of a flat-band system. In turn, we consider three types of expansion: spectroscopic (with interactions tuned to zero), dynamic (with standard short-range repulsive interactions), and under kinetic driving. The numerical calculations are exact. We compute the momentum and real-space one-particle densities, as well as the two-particle momentum correlations. We find that the spectroscopic time-of-flight experiment reflects the initial momentum distribution except for the larger number of momentum states and at high momenta. For the dynamic expansion starting from an insulator, we recover the non-equilibrium quasi-condensation into momenta ±π/2, provide a physical explanation in terms of interacting bosons that is confirmed by the numerical simulation, and note the existence of nontrivial correlations in the momentum distribution. Under kinetic driving the expansion is comparatively slow, but we conjecture that at high densities it will be much faster. We compare various measures of the two-particle momentum correlations, noting that some of them tend to conceal the possible cat-like structure of a many-body state.
Fermionization is what happens when repulsive interacting bosons in one spatial dimension feel infinite interaction. Due to their strong repulsion the bosons try to minimize their spatial overlap like the fermions. Fermionized bosons and noninteracting fermions resemble each other and we trace these similarities of strongly correlated one-dimensional bosonic systems and fermionic system by exploring their ground state properties using the one- and two-body density matrix in coordinate space. We solve the N-body Schrödinger equation accurately and from first principles using the multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree for bosons (MCTDHB) method. Using the one- and two-body density in momentum space, fermionized bosons can be distinguished from noninteracting fermions.
The coherence of a quantum system is one of the key signatures of many-body physics. While a three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) exhibits true long-range coherence, a Bose gas confined in a one-dimensional (1D) potential displays quasi-long-range order. Experimentally, these coherence properties are typically probed via the momentum distribution, which corresponds to the Fourier transform of the one-body correlation function. In two-dimensional (2D) systems, for example, momentum distribution enables the observation of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition from a thermal cloud to a superfluid. With trimodal distribution fitting, an intermediate quasicondensate phase is also revealed. In 1D systems, the momentum distribution of a quenched Tonks-Girardeau (TG) Bose gas can be mapped to that of a non-interacting Fermi gas at a specific evolution time, achieving the rapidity distribution. On the other hand, spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has emerged as one of the central topics in ultracold atomic physics. In additional to creating an artificial electric or magnetic field, researchers also observe negative-mass dynamics in a spin-orbit-coupled BEC by engineering the curvature of the band dispersion. This phenomenon is directly observable in the density distribution of the system. In 1D systems, SOC also introduces rich physical phenomena; while low-energy 1D quantum systems are conventionally described by Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) theory, SOC notably alters the energy-momentum dispersion. This modification gives rise to unconventional Luttinger liquids whose properties are governed by the spin-orbit coupling strength.In this work, we first investigate the qualitative properties of a 1D Bose gas and demonstrate the temperature dependence of the momentum distribution, revealing how the thermal fluctuations destroy the quasi-long-range order. In the second part, we probe the effects of 1D SOC on a 1D Bose gas, focusing on how SOC modifies the energy-momentum dispersion and the resulting momentum distribution. We demonstrate that within a specific parameter regime, the momentum distribution and its associated coherence properties undergo distinct qualitative changes. The occupied higher momentum states induce phase fluctuations and destroy the coherence of the system, showing signals of the non-Luttinger liquid physics. We probe the coherence properties of a 1D system along these two parameter axes.
We present a study of a gas of bosons confined in one dimension with Feshbach-resonant interactions, at zero temperature. Unlike the gas of one-dimensional bosons with non resonant interactions, which is known to be equivalent to a system of interacting spinless fermions and can be described using the Luttinger liquid formalism, the resonant gas possesses additional features. Depending on its parameters, the gas can be in one of three possible regimes. In the simplest of those, it can still be described by the Luttinger liquid theory, but its Fermi momentum cannot be larger than a certain cutoff momentum dependent on the details of the interactions. In the other two regimes, it is equivalent to a Luttinger liquid at low density only. At higher densities its excitation spectrum develops a minimum, similar to the roton minimum in helium, at momenta where the excitations are in resonance with the Fermi sea. As the density of the gas is increased further, the minimum dips below the Fermi energy, thus making the ground state unstable. At this point the standard ground state gets replaced by a more complicated one, where not only the states with momentum below the Fermi points, but also the ones with momentum close to that minimum, get filled, and the excitation spectrum develops several branches. We are unable so far to study this regime in detail due to the lack of the appropriate formalism.