Based on the analysis of the con guration space of an one{particle system, the presence of the quantum interference is shown to result in the eective interaction of an exchange{type.The quenched disorder is represented by analogy with the thermodynamic uctuations for which the halfwidth of scattering of the particle levels plays the role of temperature.With regard to fermions within the framework of Anderson locator approach, the gap in the single excitation spectrum caused by the condensation of pairs of the coupled sites is shown to determine the density of the extended states.Its dependence on the level scattering width and the chemical potential shift from the band center is found.The law of collective mode dispersion is established.For the charged fermions, the collective mode is of an ordinary diusion type, but in the case of the neutral ones (quantum crystal), the zero{sound mode of oscillations of the extended fermion density appears within the long{wave limit.The dependencies of the zero{sound velocity and typical values of its frequency and wave number on the temperature and parameter of the quantum dilatation are examined.The dependencies of the extended state condensate density and eective interaction parameter on the level scattering width W are determined for Bose case.The collective excitations are demonstrated to reduce to the rst sound which is transformed, as the value W decreases, into a pure dissipative mode, and the second sound the velocity of which critically depends on W.
Based on the analysis of the con guration space of an one{particle system, the presence of the quantum interference is shown to result in the eective interaction of an exchange{type.The quenched disorder is represented by analogy with the thermodynamic uctuations for which the halfwidth of scattering of the particle levels plays the role of temperature.With regard to fermions within the framework of Anderson locator approach, the gap in the single excitation spectrum caused by the condensation of pairs of the coupled sites is shown to determine the density of the extended states.Its dependence on the level scattering width and the chemical potential shift from the band center is found.The law of collective mode dispersion is established.For the charged fermions, the collective mode is of an ordinary diusion type, but in the case of the neutral ones (quantum crystal), the zero{sound mode of oscillations of the extended fermion density appears within the long{wave limit.The dependencies of the zero{sound velocity and typical values of its frequency and wave number on the temperature and parameter of the quantum dilatation are examined.The dependencies of the extended state condensate density and eective interaction parameter on the level scattering width W are determined for Bose case.The collective excitations are demonstrated to reduce to the rst sound which is transformed, as the value W decreases, into a pure dissipative mode, and the second sound the velocity of which critically depends on W.
Landau showed that a nonideal Fermi gas at zero temperature can sustain collective oscillations of the acoustical type (zeroth sound). The altenuation of zeroth sound in a dilute Fermi gas with repulive intereacitions was considered. The problem was formulted interms of the Green function G which describes the paropation of density fluctuations through the system. The simplest approximation of G led to Landau's dispersion law which wae analyzed in some detail. The contribution of the phonons' zero point oscillations to the ground- state energy was estimated and found to lead to a term which has an essential singuarty at the origin of the coupling constant plane. The energy and width of the phonon are given by the poles in the spectral representation of G, and the location of these poles was determined from the Fredholm solution of an apparoximate integral equation satisfied by G. In this way it is showa that ths width, divided by the displacement of the collective state above the single- particle continunna of the free gas, vanishes linearly in the long wavelength limit. It is also shows that in the limit of extreme dilution the correct damping; can be obtained by merely taking the finite lifetimemore » of single-particles excitations into account and ignoring the dissipative effects of the noninstantaneous interactions betweein the particles in the medium. Finally, it is alao argued that the Fredholm method is the natural tool for discussing many problems in the theory of collective motion. (auth)« less
The spectral properties of a mixture of bosons hybridized with fermion pairs are studied in the superconducting state. Such a model exhibits two limiting behaviors. One is reminiscent of a BCS system, provided that the total concentration n of particles is below a certain critical concentration nc, in which case bosons exist only in thermally excited states. The other limit for n\ensuremath{\geqslant}nc describes a situation largely controlled by the condensation of the bosons. The variation of the single-boson as well as collective excitations as a function of n and for the entire temperature regime from T=0 K to Tc will be discussed, both with and without long-range Coulomb interaction between the charge carriers. The method for calculation applied here is based on the dielectric formalism and the use of Ward identities, currently used in the theory of the interacting Bose gas, which allows us to derive the density and current correlation functions consistent with local charge-current conservation laws. In the absence of a Coulomb interaction the behavior of the system is characterized by the existence of a sound-wave-like branch in the Bose single-particle and collective excitation spectrum. In the BCS regime the sound velocity is proportional to the Fermi velocity while in the Bose regime it is proportional to the strength of the boson-fermion hybridization and decreases with the superfluid density as we approach Tc. In the presence of a long-range Coulomb interaction and in the Bose regime one observes, besides the usual optical plasmon mode at high frequency and corresponding to in-phase density oscillation of the two subsytems, an out-of-phase collective mode in the two particle continuum just above the gap. Moreover, upon approaching Tc a relatively well-defined quasiparticle feature starts to emerge within the gap and is seen in both the Bose single-particle excitation and the density oscillation spectrum. In the BCS regime, due to the very small number of occupied bosonic states, the low-energy quasiparticle features are absent. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.
This thesis theoretically deals with collective modes in the normal phase of a Bose-Fermi mixture composed of single-species bosons and single-species fermions.The mixture is experimentally established as an ultracold atomic gas.While the community studies the mixture including a superfluid phase, relevant to Bose-Einstein condensation of bosons and Cooper paring of fermions, dynamical behaviors in the normal phase have been not fully understood so that we are interested in.We consider the mixture in both spatially uniform and harmonically trapped systems with the Boltzmann equation at finite temperatures.We perform the analysis under the assumption that the physical quantities are near to equilibrium.After the linerization, we apply the moment method to the equation, obtaining a closed set of coupled equations to describe sound or oscillation.The collisional property of the system characterizes the collective modes in the sense of the hydrodynamic regime, collisionless regime, and transition between these regimes.In the uniform system, we investigate sound mode and the dynamic density structure factor.With decreasing temperature, we find that the sound velocity deviates from that of the hydrodynamic mode.Even at a temperature much lower than the Fermi temperature, the sound velocity does not reach the collisionless limit analogous to the zero sound in a Fermi system.However, we show the existence of a long-lived sound at a low temperature as distinct from the first and zero sounds.Nature of the long-lived sound seems to be originated by Pauli blocking of fermions; this statistical effect makes the interspecies collision suppress in the Bose-Fermi mixture.In the trapped system, we mainly study dipole oscillation.We consistently define the relaxation time originated by the interspecies scattering.We find that two oscillating modes in the collisionless regime have distinct fates in the hydrodynamic regime; one collisionless mode shows a crossover to a hydrodynamic in-phase mode, and the other collisionless mode shows a transition to two purely-damped modes.We show the time evolution of the three types of hydrodynamic modes with suitable initial conditions.We discuss temperature dependence of the dipole modes.We observe that the relaxation time dominates the dependence compared to the mean-field contribution.We also observe the nonmonotonic behavior of the relaxation time when Pauli blocking of fermions is not negligible.i List of Figures 1.1 Two schematic images of collisions with a period of oscillation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Measurement of the zero sound in pure liquid 3 He . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Transition between the first sound and the zero sound in a two-component Fermi gas . . . 3 1.4 Dipole oscillations of the two-component gas of 40 K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.5 Frequencies of dipole mode in the two-component gas of 40 K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.6 Damping times of dipole mode in the two-component gas of 40 K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.7 Dipole oscillations of the mixture of 87 Rb and 40 K in the hydrodynamic regime . . . . . . .6 1.8 Dipole oscillations of the mixture of 87 Rb and 40 K in the deeper hydrodynamic regime . . .6 1.9 Dipole oscillations of the mixture of 87 Rb and 40 K in the collisionless regime . . . . . . . .7 2.1 Results obtained by solving the coupled moment equations for sound mode . . . . . . . . .26 3.1 Time evolution of the center-of-mass positions and velocity fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 3.2 Dipole modes as a function of the relaxation time with N B = N F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 3.3 Dipole modes as a function of the relaxation time with N B /N F = 0.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 3.4 Ratio of the displacement of the center of mass to the velocity field as a function of the relaxation time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Disordered elastic systems are studied in the quantum, classical, and dynamic regime in the present thesis. The thesis consists of two main parts: In the first part we study the low temperature phase diagram of one-dimensional weakly disordered quantum systems like charge or spin density waves and Luttinger liquids by a full finite temperature renormalization group (RG) calculation. In the classical region, for vanishing quantum fluctuations those results are supplemented by an exact solution of the model in the case of strong disorder, described by the ground state and the correlation function. Furthermore, by a mapping of the problem onto a Burgers equation with noise, in the case of weak disorder, we can derive an expression for the correlation length. At zero temperature we reproduce the (quantum) phase transition between a pinned (localized) and an unpinned (delocalized) phase for weak and strong quantum fluctuations, respectively, as found previously by Fukuyama or Giamarchi and Schulz. At finite temperatures the localization transition is suppressed: the random potential is wiped out by thermal fluctuations on length scales larger than the thermal de Broglie wave length of the phason excitations. The existence of a zero temperature transition is reflected in a rich cross-over phase diagram determined by the correlation functions. In particular we find four different scaling regions: a classical disordered, a quantum disordered, a quantum critical, and a thermal region. The results can be transferred directly to the discussion of the influence of disorder in superfluids. Finally we extend the RG calculation to the treatment of a commensurate lattice potential, and for the case of density waves we discuss the influence of quantum phase-slips, which might lead to a new scenario for the unpinning (delocalization) transition at zero temperature. Additionally, we analyze the current noise in a classical one-dimensional charge density wave system in the weak pinning regime by solving the overdamped equation of motion numerically. At low temperatures and just above the zero temperature depinning threshold, the power spectrum of the current noise reveals the existence of 1/f or flicker noise. Our results are in agreement with experimental measurements in quasi-one-dimensional charge density wave systems. In part two, we examine the viscous motion of an interface driven by a periodically oscillating external field in a random medium. The velocity exhibits a smeared depinning transition showing a pronounced hysteresis, which is absent in the adiabatic case. Its width is determined by a new length scale, introduced by the frequency of the external drive and - in the low frequency regime - by the critical exponents of the zero frequency depinning transition. Scaling arguments and an approximate renormalization group treatment predict a power law behavior of the velocity as a function of frequency and field amplitude at the dc depinning threshold, which is confirmed numerically. Thermal fluctuations lead to an additional smearing of the transition. If the amplitude of the external driving force is smaller than the depinning field, the motion of the interface by avalanches has to be taken into account in order to describe the velocity hysteresis. To check the validity of our model with respect to experimental results, we calculate the complex susceptibilities using an adiabatic and non-adiabatic approach numerically for finite systems and compare it to measurements of a superferromagnetic granular multilayer system and find that the model of an ac driven interface in a disordered environment can describe the main features of the experimental results. Additionally, the influence of a strong surface potential on the critical depinning of an elastic system, driven in a random medium is considered. If the surface potential prevents depinning completely, the curvature of the displacement profile at zero temperature exhibits a pronounced rhombic hysteresis curve with width of two times the (bulk) depinning field. The hysteresis disappears at non-zero temperatures if the driving force is changed adiabatically. If the surface depinns by the applied force or thermal creep, the curvature is reduced with increasing velocity. The results apply, e.g., to driven magnetic domain walls, flux-line lattices, and charge-density waves. As addendum we examine low dimensional interacting, but clean Bose systems at low temperatures. The interaction leads to scattering events of the over-condensate particles for which we calculate the scattering times using Fermi's golden rule. With that we derive the thermal conductivity and the related weak localization corrections. This is done for short and long-range interactions.
The low-temperature properties of the interacting Bose system at high density are investigated under the random phase approximation and the self-consistent Hartree approximation based on the “normal-mode analysis”. To treat rigorously the tempereture-dependent “depletion” effect of the particles in the zero-momentum level, a new approach is proposed. As a result, the critical temperature, Tc, at which the zero-momentum particles disappear is determined. In the region below Tc, the temperature-dependent energy-spectrum of the quasi-particles, which has at the zero-temperature an intimate connection with that of Bogoliubov, is obtained, and the property of superfluidity which disappears at Tc is discussed. It is shown that the quasi-particles are transformed into the normal Bose particles at Tc, and the temperature-dependent energy-spectrum of the normal particles in the region above Tc is determined. It is noteworthy that the phase transition of the second-order occurs at Tc. In so far as the interaction gives the real and positive value for the energy-spectrum of both the quasi-particles and normal particles, the results above hold true, independent of the magnitude and particular shape of interaction.Some remarks are made on the hard-sphere interaction and on the interaction among the quasi-particles which seems necessary for the investigateions of the intermediate-density Bose system.
An investigation is performed using normal-mode analysis on a quantum mechanical cell model whose general features are representative of 4He at low temperatures. Both random-phase and self-consistent field approximations are invoked. A Bogoliubov-type excitation energy spectrum is derived for the interacting Bose system, and the amplitudes of the system quasi-particles are obtained; these quantities are expressed in terms of zero-momentum occupation number. A relationship giving the temperature-dependent fractional occupation of the single-particle zero-momentum level is established, and special attention is devoted to the temperature extreme near absolute zero. An estimate is made of the zero-temperature sound speed corresponding to the special case of phonon excitation given by the model in low momentum. It is shown that at a critical temperature for which the zero-momentum occupation is depleted, the quasi-particles indeed become normal Bose particles. In first approximation, this critical temperature is akin in form to that obtained in treatments of ideal boson systems.