Obtaining the phase diagram and thermodynamic quantities of bulk systems from the densities of trapped gases
| Autor: | Qi Zhou, Tin-Lun Ho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | Nature Physics. 6:131-134 |
| ISSN: | 1745-2481 1745-2473 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/nphys1477 |
| Popis: | A long-standing goal of experiments using cold atoms in optical lattices is to simulate the behaviour of strongly correlated electrons in solid-state systems. However, in these experiments, the atoms are confined to spatially inhomogeneous traps, whereas the desired information concerns homogeneous bulk systems. Theoretical work now proposes a way to connect the two types of system. Experiments that use cold atoms in optical lattices to simulate the behaviour of strongly correlated solid-state systems promise to provide insight into a range of long-standing problems in many-body physics1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. The goal of such ‘quantum simulations’ is to obtain information about homogeneous systems. Cold-gas experiments, however, are carried out in spatially inhomogeneous confining traps, which leads inevitably to different phases in the sample. This makes it difficult to deduce the properties of homogeneous phases with standard density imaging, which averages over different phases. Moreover, important properties such as superfluid density are inaccessible by standard imaging techniques, and will remain inaccessible even when systems of interest are successfully simulated. Here, we present algorithms for mapping out several properties of homogeneous systems, including superfluid density. Our scheme makes explicit use of the inhomogeneity of the trap, an approach that might turn the source of difficulty into a means of constructing solutions. |
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