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Off-diagonal long-range order, pair distribution function, and structure factor of the ideal Fermi gas inDdimensions and Price’s inequality

M. Howard Lee, Ming Long

Published Jul 1, 1995• 6 citations
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Abstract

The one-particle density matrix in the coordinate representation is calculated for the ideal Fermi gas in general D dimensions and a slow decay form of off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO) is demonstrated therein. The pair distribution function and the structure factor are deduced from the one-particle density matrix. Their deviations from the classical values are viewed as a measure of the quantum phase, manifesting the existence of ODLRO. An upper bound on the structure factor due to Price [Phys. Rev. 94, 257 (1954)] is tested with our general solution and is also applied to the interacting electron gas.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.52.189

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A quantum system exhibits off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO) when the largest eigenvalue of the one-body-density matrix scales as , where N is the total number of particles. Putting to define the scaling exponent , then corresponds to ODLRO and to the single-particle occupation of the density matrix orbitals. When , can be used to quantify deviations from ODLRO. In this paper we study the exponent in a variety of one-dimensional bosonic and anyonic quantum systems at T = 0. For the 1D Lieb-Liniger Bose gas we find that for small interactions is close to 1, implying a mesoscopic condensation, i.e. , a value of the zero temperature "condensate" fraction appreciable at finite values of N (as the ones in experiments with 1D ultracold atoms). 1D anyons provide the possibility to fully interpolate between and 0. The behaviour of for these systems is found to be non-monotonic both with respect to the coupling constant and the statistical parameter.
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The quantum-statistical cluster expansion method of Lee and Yang is extended to investigate off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO) in one-component and multicomponent mixtures of bosons or fermions. Our formulation is applicable to both a uniform system and a trapped system without local-density approximation and allows systematic expansions of one-particle and multiparticle reduced density matrices in terms of cluster functions, which are defined for the same system with Boltzmann statistics. Each term in this expansion can be associated with a Lee-Yang graph. We elucidate a physical meaning of each Lee-Yang graph; in particular, for a mixture of ultracold atoms and bound dimers, an infinite sum of the ladder-type Lee-Yang 0-graphs is shown to lead to Bose-Einstein condensation of dimers below the critical temperature. In the case of Bose statistics, an infinite series of Lee-Yang 1-graphs is shown to converge and gives the criteria of ODLRO at the one-particle level. Applications to a dilute Bose system of hard spheres are also made. In the case of Fermi statistics, an infinite series of Lee-Yang 2-graphs is shown to converge and gives the criteria of ODLRO at the two-particle level. Applications to a two-component Fermi gas in the tightly bound limit are also made.