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We consider the problem of a single down atom in the presence of a Fermi sea of up atoms, in the vicinity of a Feshbach resonance. We calculate the chemical potential and the effective mass of the down atom using two simple approaches: a many-body variational wave function and a T-matrix approximation. These two methods lead to the same results and are in good agreement with existing quantum Monte-Carlo calculations performed at unitarity and, in one dimension, with the known exact solution. Surprisingly, our results suggest that, even at unitarity, the effect of interactions is fairly weak and can be accurately described using single particle-hole excitations. We also consider the case of unequal masses.
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We consider a single down atom within a Fermi sea of up atoms. We elucidate by a full many-body analysis the quite mysterious agreement between Monte-Carlo results and approximate calculations taking only into account single particle-hole excitations. It results from a nearly perfect destructive interference of the contributions of states with more than one particle-hole pair. This is linked to the remarkable efficiency of the expansion in powers of hole wavevectors, the lowest order leading to perfect interference. Going up to two particle-hole pairs gives an essentially perfect agreement with known exact results. Hence our treatment amounts to an exact solution of this problem.
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We explore the possibility of detecting many-body entanglement using time-of-flight (TOF) momentum correlations in ultracold atomic fermi gases. In analogy to the vacuum correlations responsible for Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy, a partitioned atomic gas will exhibit particle-hole correlations responsible for entanglement entropy. The signature of these momentum correlations might be detected by a sensitive TOF type experiment.
Experiments on quantum degenerate Fermi gases of magnetic atoms and dipolar molecules begin to probe their broken symmetry phases dominated by the long-range, anisotropic dipole-dipole interaction. Several candidate phases including the p-wave superfluid, the stripe density wave, and a supersolid have been proposed theoretically for two-dimensional spinless dipolar Fermi gases. Yet the phase boundaries predicted by different approximations vary greatly, and a definitive phase diagram is still lacking. Here we present a theory that treats all competing many-body instabilities in the particle-particle and particle-hole channel on equal footing. We obtain the low temperature phase diagram by numerically solving the functional renormalization-group flow equations and find a nontrivial density wave phase at small dipolar tilting angles and strong interactions, but no evidence of the supersolid phase. We also estimate the critical temperatures of the ordered phases.
Periodic driving has emerged as a powerful experimental tool to engineer physical properties of isolated, synthetic quantum systems. However, due to the lack of energy conservation and heating effects, non-trivial (e.g., topological) many-body states in periodically driven (Floquet) systems are generally metastable. Therefore it is necessary to find strategies for preparing long-lived many-body states in Floquet systems. We develop a theoretical framework for describing the dynamical preparation of states in Floquet systems by a slow turn-on of the drive. We find that the dynamics of the system is well approximated by the initial state evolving under a slowly varying effective Hamiltonian $H_{rm eff}^{(s)}(t)$, provided the ramp speed $s gg t_*^{-1} sim e^{-{mathcal{C} frac{omega}{J}}}$, the inverse of the characteristic heating time-scale in the Floquet system. At such ramp speeds, the heating effects due to the drive are exponentially suppressed. We compute the slowly varying effective Hamiltonian $H_{rm eff}^{(s)}(t)$, and show that at the end of the ramp it is identical to the effective Hamiltonian of the unramped Floquet system, up to small corrections of the order $O(s)$. Therefore, the system effectively undergoes a slow quench from $H_0$ to $H_{rm eff}$. As an application, we consider the passage of the slow quench through a quantum critical point (QCP), and estimate the energy absorbed due to the non-adiabatic passage through the QCP via a Kibble-Zurek mechanism. By minimizing the energy absorbed due to both the drive and the ramp, we find an optimal ramp speed $s_* sim t_*^{-z/({d+2z})}$ for which both heating effects are exponentially suppressed. Our results bridge the gap between the numerous proposals to obtain interesting systems via Floquet engineering, and the actual preparation of such systems in their effective ground states.
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