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arXiv:cond-mat/0604525 · International Journal of Modern Physics B

DECONFINEMENT AND COLD ATOMS IN OPTICAL LATTICES

M. A CAZALILLA, A. F. HO, Thierry Giamarchi

Published Dec 15, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

Despite the fact that by now one dimensional and three dimensional systems of interacting particles are reasonably well understood, very little is known on how to go from the one dimensional physics to the three dimensional one. This is in particular true in a quasi-one dimensional geometry where the hopping of particles between one dimensional chains or tubes can lead to a dimensional crossover between a Luttinger liquid and more conventional high dimensional states. Such a situation is relevant to many physical systems. Recently cold atoms in optical traps have provided a unique and controllable system in which to investigate this physics. We thus analyze a system made of coupled one dimensional tubes of interacting fermions. We explore the observable consequences, such as the phase diagram for isolated tubes, and the possibility to realize unusual superfluid phases in coupled tubes systems.

DOI
10.1142/s0217979206036235

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Using two-dimensional optical lattices, it has recently become possible to split up clouds of ultra cold atoms into collections of parallel one-dimensional tubes in which the dynamics is restricted to the direction along their axis. Since the Feshbach-resonance interactions among atoms are short ranged, they can be approximated as contact interactions. It is thus possible to realize optical-trap versions of some classic integrable systems first studied by Lieb, Gaudin, Yang and others. Such systems can display exotic physics like spin-charge separation and unusual paired states. We focus on the study of systems of fermions in one-dimension. At finite temperatures, regimes such as the spin-coherent and the spin-incoherent Luttinger liquids can be realized by tuning the inter-atomic interaction strength and trap parameters. We identify the noise correlation of density fluctuations as a robust observable to discriminate between these two regimes. We also address the effects of spin imbalance for the case of attractive interactions, and study the one-dimensional analog of spatially modulated (FFLO) superconducting states. Our focus is on how the temperature affects the density profiles that are being measured in the experiments. The theoretical study of temperature effects in these systems is of experimental relevance for the problem of thermometry.
We study a two-dimensional (2D) array of coupled 1D tubes of interacting bosons. Such systems can be produced by loading ultracold atoms in anisotropic optical lattices. We investigate the effects of coupling the tubes via hopping of the bosons (i.e. Josephson coupling). In the absence of a periodic potential along the tubes, or when such potential is incommensurate with the boson density, the system undergoes a transition from an array of incoherent Tomonaga–Luttinger liquids at high temperature to an anisotropic Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC), at low temperature. We determine the transition temperature and long wavelength excitations of the BEC. In addition to the usual gapless (Goldstone) mode found in standard superfluids, we also find a gapped mode associated with fluctuations of the amplitude of the order parameter. When a commensurate periodic potential is applied along the tubes, they can become 1D Mott insulators. Intertube hopping leads to a deconfinement quantum phase transition between the 1D Mott insulators and the anisotropic BEC. We also take into account the finite size of the gas tubes as realized in actual experiments. We map out the phase diagram of the quasi-1D lattice and compare our results with the existing experiments on such systems.
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Cold atomic gases have provided us with a great number of opportunities for studying various physical systems under controlled conditions that are seldom offered in other fields. We are thus at the point where one can truly do quantum simulation of models that are relevant for instance in condensed-matter or high-energy physics, i.e. we are on the verge of a ’cool’ quantum simulator as envisioned by Feynman. One of the avenues under exploration is the physics of one-dimensional systems. Until recently this was mostly in the many-body limit but now experiments can be performed with controllable particle numbers all the way down to the few-body regime. After a brief introduction to some of the relevant experiments, I will review recent theoretical work on one-dimensional quantum systems containing bosons, fermions, or mixtures of the two, with a particular emphasis on the case where the particles are held by an external trap.