An approach that makes it possible to correctly derive equations describing the Bose–Einstein condensation and the spectrum of elementary excitations in the ensemble of Hubbard bosons in the strong correlation regime $$(U \gg {\text{|}}{{t}_{{fm}}}{\text{|}})$$ has been developed in the atomic representation using the Dyson method with the introduced indefinite metric. The kinematic Dyson interaction caused by the properties of the commutation relations of dynamic variables plays an important role in such a system. An effective Hamiltonian has been obtained using the operator form of perturbation theory at finite U values. It has been shown that the properties of the ensemble of Hubbard bosons have been determined by the kinematic interaction, correlated hopping, and the attraction between Hubbard bosons. Numerical calculations have demonstrated the effect of these interactions on the characteristics of the energy spectrum of excitations of the ensemble of Hubbard bosons and on the dependence of the density of condensate particles on the density of bosons in the system.
An approach that makes it possible to correctly derive equations describing the Bose–Einstein condensation and the spectrum of elementary excitations in the ensemble of Hubbard bosons in the strong correlation regime (U≫|tfm|) has been developed in the atomic representation using the Dyson method with the introduced indefinite metric. The kinematic Dyson interaction caused by the properties of the commutation relations of dynamic variables plays an important role in such a system. An effective Hamiltonian has been obtained using the operator form of perturbation theory at finite U values. It has been shown that the properties of the ensemble of Hubbard bosons have been determined by the kinematic interaction, correlated hopping, and the attraction between Hubbard bosons. Numerical calculations have demonstrated the effect of these interactions on the characteristics of the energy spectrum of excitations of the ensemble of Hubbard bosons and on the dependence of the density of condensate particles on the density of bosons in the system.
The properties of a Bose-Einstein gas with repulsive interparticle interactions are determined at low temperature. It is shown that the contribution to the energy arising from particle excitation with small momentum transfers computed in conventional perturbation theory is divergent, but that this difficulty can be avoided by an alternative procedure. An exact method is developed for dealing with that part of the Hamiltonian which gives rise to the perturbation divergence and an exact solution is obtained. The treatment of the region of large momentum transfers is then carried out by introducing the concept of the scattering length of the interaction. The energy is given by the well-known result of the optical theorem corrected by a series in powers of ${(\ensuremath{\rho}{a}^{3})}^{\frac{1}{2}}$, where $\ensuremath{\rho}$ is the density and a the scattering length. Examination of the processes contributing to the energy shows that 95.8% of the correction of order ${(\ensuremath{\rho}{a}^{3})}^{\frac{1}{2}}$ results from a simple alteration of the perturbation energy denominators which takes into account the interaction energy of excited pairs with the unexcited pairs of the medium. The remaining 4.2% arises from multiple particle excitation. These methods also predict the existence of phonon excitation with phonon energies that are linear in the phonon momentum for small excitation and approach 2Mq2 for large momentum. The detailed consideration of this spectrum forms part of the following paper.The results are compared with the theory of fermion systems with strong interactions, where again the largest correction to the first-order "optical" energy arises from alteration of the two-particle propagator which is required to take into account interactions with the many unexcited particles of the medium. The propagator corrections in the fermion and boson systems are similar except for a characteristic difference arising from the statistics. The theory for bosons is shown to be essentially identical with that given by Brueckner and Levinson in their general formulation of the theory of many-body systems with strong interactions.Systems with attractive but saturating interactions are also considered and some new difficulties are shown to arise which cannot be treated by a straightforward application of the methods of this paper.
We investigate the fermion spectrum within the Bose–Fermi–Hubbard model used for the description of boson-fermion mixtures of ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices. We used the method based on the Hubbard operator approach for an on-site basis. The equation for fermion Green’s function in the Bose–Fermi–Hubbard model is built; Green’s functions of higher orders are decoupled in the Hubbard-I approximation (the case of the strong on-site interaction). The corresponding spectral densities are calculated. In the case of hard-core bosons, the condition of appearance of additional bands in the fermion spectrum is investigated. It is shown that these bands exist only in the state with a Bose–Einstein condensate and appear because of the mixing of states with different numbers of bosons. These additional bands can be interpreted as a manifestation of composite excitations (when the appearance of a fermion on the site is accompanied by the simultaneous creation (or annihilation) of a boson).
Bosonic atoms confined in optical lattices are described by the Bose-Hubbard model and can exist in two different phases, Mott insulator or superfluid, depending on the strength of the system parameters. In the vicinity of the phase boundary, there are degeneracies that occur between every two adjacent Mott lobes. Because of this, nondegenerate perturbation theory fails to give meaningful results for the condensate density: it predicts a phase transition in a point of the phase diagram where no transition occurs. Motivated by this, we develop two different degenerate perturbative methods to solve the degeneracy-related problems. Moreover, we study the one-dimensional repulsively interacting Bose gas under harmonic confinement, with special attention to the asymptotic behavior of the momentum distribution, which is a universal k−4 decay characterized by the Tan's contact. The latter constitutes a direct signature of the short-range correlations in such an interacting system and provides valuable insights about the role of the interparticle interactions. We investigate the system constituted of N interacting particles in the strongly interacting limit. In such a regime, the strong interparticle interaction makes the bosons behave similarly to the ideal Fermi gas. Because of the difficulty in analytically solving the system for N particles at finite interaction, the Tonks-Girardeau regime provides a favorable scenario to probe the contact. Therefore, we are able to provide an analytical formula for the Tan's contact. Furthermore, we analyze the scaling properties of the Tan's contact in terms of N in the high-temperature regime as well as in the strongly interacting regime. Finally, we compare our analytical calculations of the Tan's contact to quantum Monte Carlo simulations and discuss some fundamental differences between the canonical and the grand-canonical ensembles.
Ultracold bosonic gases in optical lattices are strongly correlated quantum systems similar to solids. The strong correlation between the electrons in a solid on the one hand, and the bosonic atoms in optical lattice on the other, exhibit various quantum phenomena like insulation, conductivity, localization of electrons and atoms, respectively. Controlled by the intensity of the lattice laser, the ultracold bosonic gas can be transferred from a regime with superfluid character for shallow lattices into a regime of strong correlations, the Mott insulator. As an additional external parameter besides the lattice depth, one can generate spatial inhomogeneities by superimposing an additional standing wave (so-called two-color superlattices), which gives rise to localization effects or the formation of a Bose-glass phase. In the present work, numerical simulations are employed in order to investigate characteristic signatures of the quantum phases in the low-energy excitation spectrum of one-dimensional systems. We simulate temporal small amplitude modulations of the optical lattice in analogy to experiments, and evaluate the response of the system from the time-evolved initial state. The lattice systems are described in the framework of the Bose-Hubbard model. For the evaluation of the time-evolved state, we employ several numerical methods. We analyze systems of small size (6 particles on 6 sites) using an exact time-evolution by integration of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The formulation of an importance truncation scheme enables us to retain only the relevant components of the model space in the strongly correlated regime and, thus, allows for the investigation of systems with 10 particles on 10 sites using exact time-evolution. Based on this method, we present results of the Mott-insulating regime as well as for the Bose-glass phase. Furthermore, we employ particle-hole methods, which allow for the treatment of systems with experimental lattice sizes and particle numbers. Starting from the equation of motion method we adapt the Tamm-Dancoff approximation as well as the random-phase approximation for the occupation number representation of the Bose-Hubbard model. We present results of simulations of up to 50 particles on 50 sites and discuss the impact of the lattice depth on the low-energy excitations (U-resonance). Moreover, the impact of a two-color superlattice and the variation of its amplitude is investigated.
The paradoxes and disparities in the contemporary microscopic theory of superfluid helium (He–II) are discussed along with possible ways of resolving them by taking pair correlations of He4 atoms into consideration. It is shown that most paradoxes are associated with the commonly accepted initial assumption concerning the dominating role of single-particle Bose condensate (SPBC) in the quantum microstructure of the superfluid component ρs. The existence of intensive SPBC leads to a strong hybridization of the elementary excitation branches and to a common dispersion law for all boson branches, which is identified with the quasiparticle spectrum E(p) observed experimentally from slow neutron scattering in liquid helium. However, the stability of this spectrum during a transition through the λ-point and the large value of the gap in the vicinity of the “rotonic” minimum contradict both the Landau theoretical criterion of superfluidity and the small value of experimentally measured critical velocity. At the same time, a strong interaction between particles in the Bose liquid He4 strongly suppresses the SPBC which amounts to less than 1% of all He4 atoms and hence cannot be the main constituent of the superfluid component, unlike the case of a weakly nonideal Bose gas. Moreover, for a quite strong attraction between particles in a certain region of the momentum space, bound pairs of bosons can be formed in the superfluid Bose liquid, and a coherent pair condensate (CPC) analogous to the Cooper pair condensate in superconductors may appear. Such a strong CPC may completely suppress the weak SPBC. In this case, the one-particle spectrum ε(p) of elementary excitations does not hybridize with the collective (two-particle) spectrum and does not appear in the structure of the dynamic form factor S(p,ε), i.e., does not coincide with the spectrum measured from neutron scattering. The dispersion of one-particle spectrum is defined by the momentum dependence of the pair order parameter Ψ̃(p) and may have a minimum or a point of inflection at p≠0. This peculiarity in the one-particle spectrum of a Bose liquid with CPC but without SPBC vanishes together with Ψ̃(p) at the temperature Tc=Tλ of the phase transition from the superfluid to the normal state (unlike the rotonic minimum in the collective spectrum), while the corresponding critical velocity vc=min[ε(p)/p] vanishes at the λ-point in accordance with the Landau criterion and the experimental data. The assumption that the strong “Cooper-like” CPC is responsible for the quantum structure of the superfluid component ρs is confirmed indirectly by the successful application of the Justrow approximation (based on strong pair correlations) for describing the properties of liquid He4 and quantum liquid mixtures He3–4He on one hand, and by an anomalously large effective mass of He3 impurity atoms in He4, which is approximately equal to total mass of He3 and He4 atoms, thus pointing to the existence of helium atoms in superfluid liquid He–II. The value of the superfluid velocity circulation quantum in the Onsager–Feynman vortices in a Bose liquid with CPC but without SPBC is discussed as well as the critical velocities of superfluid He4 in ultrathin films and channels in which the creation and motion of quantum vortices are ruled out, and the quasiparticle spectrum undergoes dimensional quantization.
The spectrum of phonon-like collective excitations in the system of Bose-atoms in optical lattice (more generally, in the system of quantum particles described by the Bose-Hubbard model) is investigated.Such excitations appear due to displacements of particles with respect to their local equilibrium positions.The two-level model taking into account the transitions of bosons between the ground state and the first excited state in potential wells, as well as interaction between them, is used.Calculations are performed within the random phase approximation in the hard-core boson limit.It is shown that excitation spectrum in normal phase consists of the one exciton-like band, while in the phase with BE condensate an additional band appears.The positions, spectral weights and widths of bands strongly depend on chemical potential of bosons and temperature.The conditions of stability of a system with respect to the lowering of symmetry and displacement modulation are discussed.