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Persistent breather and dynamical symmetry in a unitary Fermi gas

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Pith's one-line read In a 3D unitary Fermi gas, the breathing mode oscillates at twice the trap frequency with damping ratio 0.002

desk verdict Strong experimental evidence for a long-lived SO(2,1)-breathing mode in a unitary Fermi gas, but the 'technical limit' attribution of residual damping is an uncalibrated assumption. read the letter →

arxiv 2411.18022 v1 pith:HRB6OZMX submitted 2024-11-27 cond-mat.quant-gas physics.atom-ph

Dali Sun , Jing Min , Xiangchuan Yan , Lu Wang , Xin Xie , Xizhi Wu , Jeff Maki , Shizhong Zhang
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The reading

The paper claims to have realized the first persistent breather in a strongly interacting quantum gas: a 3D unitary Fermi gas (a spin-balanced Fermi gas tuned to a Feshbach resonance) in a nearly isotropic optical trap, whose breathing mode oscillates at $\omega_B \approx 2\pi \times 1439(1)$ Hz, i.e. $2.01\omega_0$, with normalized damping $\Gamma_B/\omega_B \approx 0.002$. The frequency remains at $2\omega_0$ even when the excitation amplitude reaches 52% of the initial cloud size, and both frequency and damping stay nearly constant as density and temperature are varied. These features are presented as signatures of the SO(2,1) dynamical symmetry: at unitarity the contact interaction is scale invariant, and in an isotropic harmonic trap the Hamiltonian together with ladder operators $L_\pm$ forms the SO(2,1) algebra, so the breathing mode is a coherent superposition of equally spaced conformal-tower states decoupled from dissipative channels. The authors estimate the symmetry-breaking effects of trap asphericity, anharmonicity, and residual bulk viscosity and find each contributes a damping rate one to three orders of magnitude below the measured value, attributing the residual damping to technical fluctuations at the level of the dipole-mode floor. If correct, this is the first experimental realization of an interacting analogue of the Boltzmann breather and opens a route to studying conformal-symmetry-protected non-equilibrium dynamics in strongly correlated fermions.

What carries the argument

The central object is the SO(2,1) dynamical symmetry of the unitary Fermi gas in an isotropic harmonic trap, where SO(2,1) is the dynamical symmetry group whose Lie algebra is generated by the Hamiltonian $H$ and ladder operators $L_\pm$ with $[H,L_\pm]=\pm 2\hbar\omega_0 L_\pm$. Repeated action of $L_+$ on the ground state creates a conformal tower, a ladder of states spaced by $2\hbar\omega_0$, and the breathing mode is a coherent superposition of these states, so it oscillates at $2\omega_0$ without intrinsic damping; shear viscosity does not couple to isotropic compression because the shear stress tensor $\sigma_{ii}$ vanishes for in-phase motion. The paper's damping analysis uses a hydrodynamic scaling ansatz in which the density profile evolves through scaling factors $b_i(t)$, with bulk viscosity set to zero in the unitary limit. Expanding around a small trap asphericity $\delta$ gives $\Gamma_B/\omega_B \approx 16\gamma\delta^2/(9+36\gamma^2)$, from which the authors show that asphericity, anharmonicity, and bulk-viscosity contributions lie one to three orders of magnitude below the observed floor.

What would settle it

Vary the trap asphericity $\delta$ continuously and measure $\Gamma_B/\omega_B$ against the predicted $16\gamma\delta^2/(9+36\gamma^2)$ curve. If, as $\delta \to 0$, the breathing-mode damping stays clearly above the independently measured dipole-mode floor $\Gamma_D/\omega_D \approx 0.0025(13)$, then an intrinsic damping channel is present and the technical-noise interpretation fails; if the curve tracks the prediction to the dipole floor, the persistent-breather claim is supported.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper establishes that the isotropic breathing mode of a unitary Fermi gas in a harmonic trap is essentially undamped and frequency-locked. The measured frequency is $\omega_B = 2\pi \times 1439(1)$ Hz $\approx 2.01\omega_0$ with damping $\Gamma_B = 18(4)$ s$^{-1}$, giving $\Gamma_B/\omega_B \approx 0.002$, and the mode persists for tens of milliseconds. The same frequency ratio holds for excitation amplitudes up to $\delta_{AB}=0.52$ and across central densities $n_0 = 6\times 10^{12}$ to $2\times 10^{13}$ cm$^{-3}$ and temperatures $T/T_F = 0.29$ to $0.44$. By contrast, the quadrupole mode in the same system decays at $\Gamma_Q/\omega_Q \approx 0.04$, and breathing modes in cigar-shaped traps or away from unitarity oscillate at frequencies shifted from $2\omega_0$ with larger damping. The authors interpret the frequency-locking and amplitude independence as evidence that the motion is a coherent superposition of conformal-tower states and that the residual damping is technical rather than intrinsic.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that technical noise damps the dipole and breathing modes equally and that the hydrodynamic model with zero bulk viscosity and the scaling ansatz accounts for every intrinsic symmetry-breaking damping channel; if either fails, part of the measured damping could be intrinsic and the breather would be less persistent than claimed.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Because isotropic breathing motion decouples from shear viscosity, the long-lived mode can be used as a sensitive probe of bulk viscosity along the BEC–BCS crossover or near a narrow Feshbach resonance.
  • The amplitude independence up to $\delta_{AB}=0.52$ provides a test bed for nonlinear dynamics of conformal-tower superpositions beyond linear-response theory.
  • The contrast with the cigar-shaped trap ($\Gamma_B/\omega_B \approx 0.13$) quantifies how strongly anisotropy breaks the SO(2,1) protection and sets a target for future trap engineering.
  • A normalized damping of $0.002$ establishes a benchmark for collective-mode lifetimes in strongly interacting Fermi gases and makes the system suitable for studying conformal-symmetry-protected quench dynamics and hydrodynamics.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The cleanest unmeasured prediction of the symmetry is isentropicity; measuring temperature or entropy per particle over a breathing cycle would directly test whether the motion is truly reversible, which the paper does not report.
  • If the technical-noise floor is the true limitation, improving intensity and magnetic-field stability should lower both $\Gamma_D/\omega_D$ and $\Gamma_B/\omega_B$; a saturation above the dipole floor would reveal intrinsic damping.
  • A systematic scan of the breathing-mode frequency and damping across the 2D–3D crossover at unitarity would map how the 2D quantum anomaly gives way to the robust 3D SO(2,1) symmetry.
  • The same conformal-tower logic suggests that other isotropic modes, such as higher-order breathing or monopole excitations, should also exhibit frequency locking at integer multiples of $2\omega_0$, offering additional tests of the symmetry.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper reports an experimental study of the breathing mode of a 6Li unitary Fermi gas in an almost isotropic optical trap. The authors measure the breathing frequency ωB = 2π × 1439(1) Hz ≈ 2.01ω0 and a damping rate ΓB = 18(4) s⁻¹, i.e. ΓB/ωB ≈ 0.002, and show that the frequency remains ≈2ω0 for excitation amplitudes up to δAB = 0.52 and for variations of central density and temperature. They compare with symmetry-broken cases (BEC side, cigar-shaped trap, BCS side) and analyze the residual damping using hydrodynamic theory, attributing it to trap asphericity, anharmonicity, bulk viscosity, and ultimately to technical noise calibrated by the dipole-mode damping floor. The paper claims this is the first persistent breather in a strongly interacting 3D Fermi gas, protected by SO(2,1) symmetry.

Significance. If the reported measurements are correct, the paper provides the cleanest experimental realization of SO(2,1)-protected breathing dynamics in a strongly interacting 3D Fermi gas. The frequency being exactly 2ω0 across amplitudes, densities, and temperatures is a sharp, parameter-free prediction of the symmetry, and the measured value is directly extracted rather than fitted to the theory. The control measurements with broken symmetry support the interpretation. The main limitation is that the quantitative explanation of the residual damping rests on an uncalibrated assumption about the frequency dependence of technical noise, and the damping itself is extracted over less than one e-folding, so the 'technical-limit' conclusion is less secure than the headline frequency measurement.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. V and Fig. 5(c)] The claim that the residual breathing-mode damping is limited by technical noise rests on the statement in the final check of Sec. V: 'We assume that the technical fluctuation contributes equally to dipole and breathing modes.' This assumption is not calibrated: the dipole floor ΓD/ωD = 0.0025(13) is measured at dipole frequencies ωx,y,z ≈ 2π × (860–917) Hz (Appendix B), while the breathing mode oscillates at ωB = 2π × 1439 Hz. If the trap-intensity or beam-pointing noise spectral density differs between ω0 and 2ω0, the dipole floor does not bound the technical damping of the breathing mode, and part of the observed residual damping could be intrinsic symmetry-breaking. Footnote [42] itself concedes that the dipole-mode uncertainty is too large to draw conclusions from the ΓB trends. The conclusion that the damping 'has reached the technical limit' should either be supported by a measurement of the technical-noise contribution at 2ω0 (e.g., by deliberately adding intensity noise at that frequency) or be downgraded to an upper-bound statement.
  2. [Sec. II and Fig. 1(c,d)] The reported damping rate ΓB = 18(4) s⁻¹ corresponds to a damping time constant of about 56 ms, while the data shown in Fig. 1(c) extend to roughly 30 ms. The fit therefore covers only about half an e-folding of the decay, so the extraction of ΓB is weakly constrained and may be sensitive to slow drifts, imaging nonlinearities, or baseline offsets. Because the headline claim 'ΓB/ωB ≈ 0.002' is a central result, the paper should either extend the observation window, provide a fit over a full e-folding, or explicitly present the value as an upper bound with a discussion of systematic uncertainties.
  3. [Sec. IV, Fig. 4, and Footnote [42]] The main text states that 'the damping rate remains always close to zero' and that the oscillation frequency and damping rate 'keep nearly constant' across densities and temperatures, but Footnote [42] says that the breathing-mode damping 'seems to increase with the atomic density and temperature' although no conclusion can be drawn because the dipole-mode uncertainty is too large. This internal tension should be resolved in the main text: the robustness claim for the damping rate is weaker than the robustness claim for the frequency, and the apparent trend in Fig. 4 should be discussed explicitly rather than only in a footnote.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Throughout] There are several typos and incomplete sentences: 'ultrcold' in Appendix A, 'holing time' in Appendix B, 'Hamitonian' and 'raising/lowing' in the Introduction, 'asphercity' in Sec. V, and Footnotes [12], [28], and [42] end with stray commas or periods.
  2. [Eq. (C2)] The symbol X² is used in the definitions of L+ and L− but is not defined before the equation; please define X² = Σ_j r_j² explicitly to avoid ambiguity.
  3. [Figure captions and Sec. II] The error bars are described inconsistently: Fig. 1 says 'standard deviation of three measurements' while Figs. 3–5 say 'fitting uncertainty of the damped sinusoidal function'; please state clearly which quantity is plotted in each panel.
  4. [Sec. V, Appendix D.3] The bulk-viscosity estimate assumes a magnetic-field detuning of 2 G and uses a high-temperature virial expansion at T/TF = 0.29; this is an order-of-magnitude estimate and should be labeled as such in the main text, since the detuning is not directly measured.

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No significant circularity: the measured breathing frequency and damping are tested against external SO(2,1) theory and independently measured quadrupole and dipole modes, not fitted or derived from the target result.

full rationale

The central derivation is self-contained against external benchmarks. The breathing-mode frequency ωB ≈ 2ω0 is measured and then compared with the SO(2,1) conformal-tower prediction from prior external theory by Werner-Castin and Pitaevskii-Rosch; no parameter is fitted to the breathing data to force this value. The damping analysis in Sec. V uses Eq. (3), whose dimensionless shear-viscosity parameter γ is extracted from the separately measured quadrupole-mode damping ΓQ/ωQ ≈ 0.04; the resulting asphericity correction (2.5×10⁻⁴), anharmonicity correction (1.5×10⁻⁴), and bulk-viscosity correction (6×10⁻⁶) are calculated, not fitted, and lie one to three orders of magnitude below the observed ΓB/ωB ≈ 0.002. The remaining damping is attributed to technical noise by comparison with the independently measured dipole-mode floor ΓD/ωD = 0.0025(13). The load-bearing assumption in the final check of Sec. V that technical fluctuations contribute equally to dipole and breathing modes is an uncalibrated physical assumption and a stated limitation, not a circular reduction: it is an input model assumption, not an equation that reproduces its own output. Footnote [42] further acknowledges that the dipole-mode uncertainty is too large to draw conclusions from the apparent density/temperature trend of ΓB/ωB, which the paper discloses honestly. The self-citations to the group's previous preparation work [25] and to Maki-Zhou papers [24,32] for the Boltzmann-breather analogy are contextual or supportive, and one of the cited authors is a coauthor; however, these citations are not load-bearing for the measured frequency or damping values, which stand on the experimental fits and the external SO(2,1) theory. No fitted breathing parameter is renamed as a prediction, and no equation reduces by construction to its own target. The result is therefore not circular, though the technical-noise equality assumption is a genuine correctness risk that the paper itself flags.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central measurement introduces no free parameters; it compares directly with analytic SO(2,1) predictions. The damping analysis has one fitted viscosity parameter extracted from the quadrupole mode and one assumed detuning for a negligible bulk-viscosity correction. No new entities are posited.

free parameters (2)
  • trap-averaged shear viscosity coefficient alpha_s = 0.77 (from Gamma_Q/omega_Q ≈ 0.04)
    Extracted from the measured quadrupole damping via Gamma_Q/omega_Q = gamma/sqrt(2); used in Eq. (3) to predict the asphericity contribution to breathing damping. Not needed for the central frequency and damping claim.
  • assumed magnetic-field detuning for bulk-viscosity estimate = 2 G
    Chosen by hand in Appendix D.3 to estimate the bulk-viscosity correction; the resulting rate is 6 x 10^-6, well below the measured damping, so the central claim does not depend on this value.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption At unitarity, a zero-range interacting 3D Fermi gas is scale invariant, with Bethe-Peierls boundary condition Psi(r -> 0) ~ 1/r.
    Invoked in the Introduction and Appendix C to justify the SO(2,1) symmetry of the trapped unitary Fermi gas.
  • domain assumption The hydrodynamic scaling ansatz n(r,t) = (1/bx by bz) n0(x/bx, y/by, z/bz) describes the collective modes.
    Used in Appendix D to derive Eq. (2) and the damping formulas; assumes local equilibrium and a scaling flow.
  • domain assumption Bulk viscosity vanishes for the scale-invariant unitary Fermi gas (Son, Ref [11]).
    Used in Sec. V and Appendix D to set zeta_B = 0, so residual breathing damping must come from other sources.
  • standard math The dipole mode in a harmonic trap is undamped by interactions (Kohn's theorem), so its measured damping is a technical floor.
    Used in Sec. V to interpret Gamma_D/omega_D = 0.0025(13) as the technical-noise contribution relevant to the breathing mode.
  • domain assumption The trap can be treated as isotropic and harmonic to leading order, with small asphericity delta and anharmonicity beta.
    The breathing-mode damping formula Eq. (3) requires this; the experiment's delta about 4.9 percent is treated perturbatively.

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SO(2,1) dynamical symmetry makes a remarkable prediction that the breathing oscillation of a scale invariant quantum gas in an isotropic harmonic trap is isentropic and can persist indefinitely. In 2D, this symmetry is broken due to quantum anomaly in the strongly interacting range, and consequently the lifetime of the breathing mode becomes finite. The persistent breather in a strongly interacting system has so far not been realized. Here we experimentally achieve the long-lived breathing mode in a 3D unitary Fermi gas, which is protected by the SO(2,1) symmetry. The nearly perfect SO(2,1) symmetry is realized by loading the ultracold Fermi gas in an isotropic trap and tuning the interatomic interaction to resonance. The breathing mode oscillates at twice the trapping frequency even for large excitation amplitudes. The ratio of damping rate to oscillation frequency is as small as 0.002, providing an interacting persistent breather. The oscillation frequency and damping rate keep nearly constant for different atomic densities and temperatures, demonstrating the robustness of the SO(2,1) symmetry in 3D. The factors that lead to the residual damping have also been clarified. This work opens the way to study many-body non-equilibrium dynamics related to the dynamical symmetry.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Long-lived breathing mode of a unitary Fermi gas in an isotropic trap. (a) The isotropic optical dipole trap is composed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. Breathing mode at large excitation amplitudes. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. Oscillation frequencies of the breathing mode at dif [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Residual damping rate of the breathing mode. (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Time sequence of the isotropic optical trap. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Measurement of the dipole mode. (a) Fast-Fourier-transform (FFT) spectrum of the center-of-mass oscillations in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png]

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