Correlations in Low-Dimensional Quantum Gases

Correlations in Low-Dimensional Quantum Gases
Author: Guillaume Lang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2018-12-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030052850

The book addresses several aspects of thermodynamics and correlations in the strongly-interacting regime of one-dimensional bosons, a topic at the forefront of current theoretical and experimental studies. Strongly correlated systems of one-dimensional bosons have a long history of theoretical study. Their experimental realisation in ultracold atom experiments is the subject of current research, which took off in the early 2000s. Yet these experiments raise new theoretical questions, just begging to be answered. Correlation functions are readily available for experimental measurements. In this book, they are tackled by means of sophisticated theoretical methods developed in condensed matter physics and mathematical physics, such as bosonization, the Bethe Ansatz and conformal field theory. Readers are introduced to these techniques, which are subsequently used to investigate many-body static and dynamical correlation functions.

One Dimensional Quantum Gases

One Dimensional Quantum Gases
Author: John Goold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2010
Genre: Physics
ISBN:

Low dimensional quantum gases have rapidly evolved from a being a solely theoretical concept towards being experimentally accessible systems in the laboratories. Since restricted geometry are known to introduce strong correlations, these systems show very involved and interesting physics while still being largely analytically treatable. In this thesis, one dimensional two-body and many-body were studied. The two particle models serve as ideal test beds for ideas in entanglement theory. Entanglement is not only one of the defining characteristics of quantum mechanics but it is also at the heart of many current quantum information processing protocols. The analytic accessibility of the realistic dimer models makes them ideal systems for testing such ideas. I describe how different types of entanglement may arise in such models and outline detection and quantification techniques. The ground state properties and correlation functions of a Tonks-Girardeau gas of a strongly interacting boson gas confined in a potential split by a point-like barrier are studied in detail. This model can be used to approximate a realistic double well situation where the height of the barrier is related to the area of a physical potential. Alternatively, a point like potential can be a good approximation to describe a strongly localised impurity such as an ionic impurity inside a gas of neutral atoms.

Strongly Correlated Fermions and Bosons in Low-Dimensional Disordered Systems

Strongly Correlated Fermions and Bosons in Low-Dimensional Disordered Systems
Author: Igor V. Lerner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401005303

The physics of strongly correlated fermions and bosons in a disordered envi ronment and confined geometries is at the focus of intense experimental and theoretical research efforts. Advances in material technology and in low temper ature techniques during the last few years led to the discoveries of new physical of atomic gases and a possible metal phenomena including Bose condensation insulator transition in two-dimensional high mobility electron structures. Situ ations were the electronic system is so dominated by interactions that the old concepts of a Fermi liquid do not necessarily make a good starting point are now routinely achieved. This is particularly true in the theory of low dimensional systems such as carbon nanotubes, or in two dimensional electron gases in high mobility devices where the electrons can form a variety of new structures. In many of these sys tems disorder is an unavoidable complication and lead to a host of rich physical phenomena. This has pushed the forefront of fundamental research in condensed matter towards the edge where the interplay between many-body correlations and quantum interference enhanced by disorder has become the key to the understand ing of novel phenomena.

Effective Models for Low-Dimensional Strongly Correlated Systems

Effective Models for Low-Dimensional Strongly Correlated Systems
Author: Ghassan George Batrouni
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006-02-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780735403093

These proceedings cover the most recent developments in the fields of high temperature superconductivity, magnetic materials and cold atoms in traps. Special emphasis is given to recently developed numerical and analytical methods, such as effective model Hamiltonians, density matrix renormalization group as well as quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Several of the contributions are written by the pioneers of these methods.

Quantum Gases

Quantum Gases
Author: Nick Proukakis
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2013
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1848168128

This volume provides a broad overview of the principal theoretical techniques applied to non-equilibrium and finite temperature quantum gases. Covering Bose-Einstein condensates, degenerate Fermi gases, and the more recently realised exciton-polariton condensates, it fills a gap by linking between different methods with origins in condensed matter physics, quantum field theory, quantum optics, atomic physics, and statistical mechanics.

Probing Correlated Quantum Many-Body Systems at the Single-Particle Level

Probing Correlated Quantum Many-Body Systems at the Single-Particle Level
Author: Manuel Endres
Publisher: Springer Science & Business
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2014-04-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319057537

How much knowledge can we gain about a physical system and to what degree can we control it? In quantum optical systems, such as ion traps or neutral atoms in cavities, single particles and their correlations can now be probed in a way that is fundamentally limited only by the laws of quantum mechanics. In contrast, quantum many-body systems pose entirely new challenges due to the enormous number of microscopic parameters and their small length- and short time-scales. This thesis describes a new approach to probing quantum many-body systems at the level of individual particles: Using high-resolution, single-particle-resolved imaging and manipulation of strongly correlated atoms, single atoms can be detected and manipulated due to the large length and time-scales and the precise control of internal degrees of freedom. Such techniques lay stepping stones for the experimental exploration of new quantum many-body phenomena and applications thereof, such as quantum simulation and quantum information, through the design of systems at the microscopic scale and the measurement of previously inaccessible observables.

Density Ripples in Expanding Low-dimensional Gases as a Probe of Correlations

Density Ripples in Expanding Low-dimensional Gases as a Probe of Correlations
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We investigate theoretically the evolution of the two-point density correlation function of a low-dimensional ultracold Bose gas after release from a tight transverse confinement. In the course of expansion thermal and quantum fluctuations present in the trapped systems transform into density fluctuations. For the case of free ballistic expansion relevant to current experiments, we present simple analytical relations between the spectrum of "density ripples" and the correlation functions of the original confined systems. We analyze several physical regimes, including weakly and strongly interacting one-dimensional (1D) Bose gases and two-dimensional (2D) Bose gases below the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. For weakly interacting 1D Bose gases, we obtain an explicit analytical expression for the spectrum of density ripples which can be used for thermometry. For 2D Bose gases below the BKT transition, we show that for sufficiently long expansion times the spectrum of the density ripples has a self-similar shape controlled only by the exponent of the first-order correlation function. This exponent can be extracted by analyzing the evolution of the spectrum of density ripples as a function of the expansion time.

An Introduction to Integrable Techniques for One-Dimensional Quantum Systems

An Introduction to Integrable Techniques for One-Dimensional Quantum Systems
Author: Fabio Franchini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319484877

This book introduces the reader to basic notions of integrable techniques for one-dimensional quantum systems. In a pedagogical way, a few examples of exactly solvable models are worked out to go from the coordinate approach to the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz, with some discussion on the finite temperature thermodynamics. The aim is to provide the instruments to approach more advanced books or to allow for a critical reading of research articles and the extraction of useful information from them. We describe the solution of the anisotropic XY spin chain; of the Lieb-Liniger model of bosons with contact interaction at zero and finite temperature; and of the XXZ spin chain, first in the coordinate and then in the algebraic approach. To establish the connection between the latter and the solution of two dimensional classical models, we also introduce and solve the 6-vertex model. Finally, the low energy physics of these integrable models is mapped into the corresponding conformal field theory. Through its style and the choice of topics, this book tries to touch all fundamental ideas behind integrability and is meant for students and researchers interested either in an introduction to later delve in the advance aspects of Bethe Ansatz or in an overview of the topic for broadening their culture.