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arXiv:cond-mat/0401107 · Physical Review A

Peierls instability, periodic Bose-Einstein condensates, and density waves in quasi-one-dimensional boson-fermion mixtures of atomic gases

Takahiko Miyakawa, Hiroyuki Yabu, T. Suzuki

Published Jul 27, 2004• 16 citations
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Abstract

We study the quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) spin-polarized Bose-Fermi mixture of atomic gases at zero temperature. Bosonic excitation spectra are calculated in the random phase approximation on the ground state with uniform Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC's) and the Peierls instabilities are shown to appear in bosonic collective excitation modes with wave number $2{k}_{F}$ by the coupling between the Bogoliubov-phonon mode of bosonic atoms and the fermion particle-hole excitations. The ground-state properties are calculated in the variational method, and, corresponding to the Peierls instability, the state with a periodic BEC and fermionic density waves with the period $\ensuremath{\pi}∕{k}_{F}$ are shown to have a lower energy than the uniform one. We also briefly discuss the Q1D system confined in a harmonic oscillator potential and derive the Peierls instability condition for it.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.70.013612

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