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Modern Physics Letters B

DIMENSIONAL CROSSOVER AND DIMENSIONAL EFFECTS IN QUASI-TWO-DIMENSIONAL BOSE GASES

Ying Hu, Zhaoxin Liang

Published Apr 30, 2013• 4 citations
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Abstract

This paper gives a systematic review on studies of dimensional effects in pure- and quasi-two-dimensional (2D) Bose gases, focusing on the role of dimensionality in the fundamental relation among the universal behavior of breathing mode, scale invariance and dynamic symmetry. First, we illustrate the emergence of universal breathing mode in the case of pure 2D Bose gases, and elaborate on its connection with the scale invariance of the Hamiltonian and the hidden SO(2, 1) symmetry. Next, we proceed to quasi-2D Bose gases, where excitations are frozen in one direction and the scattering behavior exhibits a 3D to 2D crossover. We show that the original SO(2, 1) symmetry is broken by arbitrarily small 2D effects in scattering, which consequently shifts the breathing mode from the universal frequency. The predicted shift rises significantly from the order of 0.5% to more than 5% in transiting from the 3D-scattering to the 2D-scattering regime. Observing this dimensional effect directly would present an important step in revealing the interplay between dimensionality and quantum fluctuations in quasi-2D.

DOI
10.1142/s021798491330010x

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In quasi-two dimensions (quasi-2D), where excitations are frozen in one direction, the scattering amplitudes exhibit 2D features of the particle motion and a 3D to 2D dimensional crossover emerges in the behavior of scattering. We explore its physical consequences, capitalizing on a hidden connection between the Pitaevskii-Rosch dynamical symmetry and breathing modes. We find broken Pitaevskii-Rosch symmetry by arbitrarily small 2D effects, inducing a frequency shift in breathing modes. The predicted shift rises significantly from the order of 0.5% to more than 5% in transiting from the 3D-scattering to the 2D-scattering regime. Comparisons with other relevant effects suggest our results are observable within current experimental capabilities.
The equation of state (EOS) for a pure two-dimensional (2D) Bose gas exhibits a logarithmic dependence on the sss-wave scattering length [L. Salasnich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130402 (2017)]. The pronounced disparity between the EOS of a 2D Bose gas and its three-dimensional (3D) counterpart underscores the significance of exploring the dimensional crossover between these two distinct dimensions. In this paper, we are motivated to deduce nonuniversal corrections to the EOS for an optically trapped Bose gas along the dimensional crossover from 3D to 2D, incorporating the finite-range effects of the interatomic potential. Employing the framework of effective field theory, we derive the analytical expressions for both the ground-state energy and quantum depletion. The introduction of the lattice induces a transition from a 3D to a quasi-2D regime. In particular, we systematically analyze the asymptotic behaviors of both the 2D and 3D aspects of the model system, with a specific focus on the nonuniversal effects on the EOS arising from finite-range interactions. The nonuniversal effects proposed in this paper along the dimensional crossover represent a significant stride toward unraveling the intricate interplay between dimensionality and quantum fluctuations.
We present an experimental investigation of collective oscillations in harmonically trapped Fermi gases through the crossover from two to three dimensions. Specifically, we measure the frequency of the radial monopole oscillation or breathing mode in highly oblate gases with tunable interactions. The breathing mode frequency is set by the adiabatic compressibility and probes the thermodynamic equation of state. In 2D, a dynamical scaling symmetry for atoms interacting via a δ potential predicts the breathing mode to occur at exactly twice the harmonic confinement frequency. However, a renormalized quantum treatment introduces a new length scale which breaks this classical scale invariance resulting in a so-called quantum anomaly. Our measurements deep in the 2D regime lie above the scale-invariant prediction for a range of interaction strengths providing evidence for the quantum anomaly and signifying the breakdown of an elementary δ-potential model of atomic interactions. By varying the atom number we can tune the chemical potential and see the breathing mode frequency evolve smoothly between the 2D to 3D thermodynamic limits.
Recent experiments on a 2D Fermi gas find an undamped breathing mode at twice the trap frequency over a wide range of parameters. To understand this seemingly scale-invariant behavior in a system with a scale, we derive two exact results valid across the entire Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer--Bose-Einstein condensation (BCS--BEC) crossover at all temperatures. First, we relate the shift of the mode frequency from its scale-invariant value to ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}_{d}\ensuremath{\equiv}(1+2/d)P\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\rho}(\ensuremath{\partial}P/\ensuremath{\partial}\ensuremath{\rho}{)}_{s}$ in ddd dimensions. Next, we relate ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}_{d}$ to dissipation via a new low-energy bulk viscosity sum rule. We argue that 2D is special, with its logarithmic dependence of the interaction on density, and thus ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}_{2}$ is small in both the BCS--BEC regimes, even though $P\ensuremath{-}2\ensuremath{\epsilon}/d$, sensitive to the dimer binding energy that breaks scale invariance, is not.
The frequency of the breathing mode of a two-dimensional Fermi gas with zero-range interactions in a harmonic confinement is fixed by the scale invariance of the Hamiltonian. Scale invariance is broken in the quantized theory by introducing the two-dimensional scattering length as a regulator. This is an example of a quantum anomaly in the field of ultracold atoms and leads to a shift of the frequency of the collective breathing mode of the cloud. In this work, we study this anomalous frequency shift for a two-component Fermi gas in the strongly interacting regime. We measure significant upwards shifts away from the scale-invariant result that show a strong interaction dependence. This observation implies that scale invariance is broken anomalously in the strongly interacting two-dimensional Fermi gas.
A two-dimensional (2D) harmonically trapped interacting Fermi gas is anticipated to exhibit a quantum anomaly and possesses a breathing mode at frequencies different from a classical scale-invariant value ω_{B}=2ω_{⊥}, where ω_{⊥} is the trapping frequency. The predicted maximum quantum anomaly (∼10%) has not been confirmed in experiments. Here, we theoretically investigate the zero-temperature density equation of state and the breathing mode frequency of an interacting Fermi superfluid at the dimensional crossover from three to two dimensions. We find that the simple model of a 2D Fermi gas with a single s-wave scattering length is not adequate to describe the experiments in the 2D limit, as commonly believed. A more complete description of quasi-2D leads to a much weaker quantum anomaly, consistent with the experimental observations. We clarify that the reduced quantum anomaly is due to the significant confinement-induced effective range of interactions.