Thermally induced local imbalance in repulsive binary Bose mixtures

Autor: G. Pascual, G. Spada, S. Pilati, S. Giorgini, J. Boronat
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Physical Review Research, Vol 5, Iss 3, p L032041 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L032041
Popis: We study repulsive two-component Bose mixtures with equal populations and confined in a finite-size box through path-integral Monte Carlo simulations. For different values of the s-wave scattering length of the interspecies potential, we calculate the local population imbalance in a region of fixed volume inside the box at different temperatures. We find two different behaviors: For phase-separated states at T=0, thermal effects induce a diffusion process which reduces the local imbalance, whereas for miscible states at T=0, a maximum in the local population imbalance appears at a certain temperature, below the critical one. We show that this intriguing behavior is strongly related to the bunching effect associated with the Bose-Einstein statistics of the particles in the mixture and to an unexpected behavior of the cross pair distribution function.
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