Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Persistent Current in Bose–Fermi Mixture on a Ring
Somei Suga, Tomonori Egawa, Akiko Masaki, 弘之 森
Abstract
Persistent current of a Bose–Fermi mixture confined in a ring geometry threaded by a synthesized magnetic field is theoretically investigated. Numerical simulations are performed to study the role of boson–boson interactions and that of boson–fermion interactions on the transport property. The result shows that the boson–fermion interactions enhance the phase stiffness, which is a measure of the magnitude of the persistent current, more for the bosons than for the fermions. The same behavior is verified by a renormalization group calculation. The difference in the stiffness enhancement can be attributed to the difference in the localization property of the bosons and the fermions in one dimension.