Finite size effects on the momentum distribution of non-interacting fermions

H. Krivine

Hiroshi Matsuoka, Michael Stone

Marcos Rigol, ALEJANDRO MURAMATSU

We review recent exact results for the free expansion of impenetrable bosons on one-dimensional lattices, after switching off a confining potential. When the system is initially in a superfluid state, far from the regime in which the Mott-insulator appears in the middle of the trap, the momentum distribution of the expanding bosons rapidly approaches the momentum distribution of non-interacting fermions. Remarkably, no loss in coherence is observed in the system as reflected by a large occupation of the lowest eigenstate of the one-particle density matrix. In the opposite limit, when the initial system is a pure Mott insulator with one particle per lattice site, the expansion leads to the emergence of quasicondensates at finite momentum. In this case, one-particle correlations like the ones shown to be universal in the equilibrium case develop in the system. We show that the out-of-equilibrium behavior of the Shannon information entropy in momentum space, and its contrast with one of non-interacting fermions, allows to differentiate the two different regimes of interest. It also helps in understanding the crossover between them.

Barnali Chakrabarti, A. Gammal, N. D. Chavda +1 more

We study the dynamical fermionization of strongly interacting one-dimensional bosons in Tonks-Girardeau limit by solving the time dependent many-boson Schrödinger equation numerically exactly. We establish that the one-body momentum distribution approaches the ideal Fermi gas distribution at the time of dynamical fermionization. The analysis is further complemented by the measures on two-body level. Investigation on two-body momentum distribution, two-body local and non-local correlation clearly distinguish the fermionized bosons from non-interacting fermions. The magnitude of distinguishablity between the two systems is further discussed employing suitable measures of information theory, i.e., the well known Kullback-Leibler relative entropy and the Jensen-Shannon divergence entropy. We also observe very rich structure in the higher-body density for strongly correlated bosons whereas non-interacting fermions do not possess any higher order correlation beyond two-body.

Marc R. Curry

Hang Su, Yimin Liu, Fu‐Cho Pu