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Phase diagrams of one-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures of ultra-cold atoms

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L. Mathey, D.-W. Wang

Other Condensed Matter · Submitted 18 Feb 2006 · 41 references

Pith's reading: One-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures in an optical lattice are shown to be described as a Luttinger liquid of polarons, with CDW and fermionic-polaron-pairing phases dominating different parameter regimes.

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One-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures in an optical lattice are shown to be described as a Luttinger liquid of polarons, with CDW and fermionic-polaron-pairing phases dominating different parameter regimes.

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This paper studies a one-dimensional mixture of two kinds of ultracold atoms: bosons and fermions, confined in an optical lattice. In one dimension, systems cannot have true long-range order, but they can have quasi-long-range order, meaning correlations decay very slowly. The authors use bosonization, a standard technique, to compute which type of order wins for given interaction strengths.

The central new idea is the polaron. A fermionic atom surrounded by a screening cloud of bosons acts like a new composite particle. The authors show that these polarons, rather than bare atoms, are the right building blocks. Depending on a single parameter, the system either forms a density wave (CDW) or pairs of polarons that form a superfluid. At strong boson-fermion interactions, the mixture can phase-separate or collapse.

The paper extends the analysis to fermions with spin, where spin and charge excitations separate, and to special densities where an energy gap opens. It also translates the theoretical parameters into experimentally controllable quantities such as lattice strengths and scattering lengths, and proposes detection methods including time-of-flight imaging and noise-correlation measurements. If the picture holds, experiments on Bose-Fermi mixtures can be interpreted with the same tools used for one-dimensional electron systems.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim, stated in Section III.B, is that 'the 1D BFM system should be understood as a Luttinger liquid of polarons.' If correct, the low-energy physics is governed by a single Luttinger parameter K_beta: CDW quasi-long-range order dominates for K_beta < 1, while fermionic-polaron pairing (f-PP) dominates for K_beta > 1, up to the Wentzel-Bardeen phase-separation boundary.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing assumption is the fast-boson regime v_b >> v_f, which justifies integrating out high-energy 2k_f phonons in an instantaneous approximation to obtain the exactly diagonalizable bilinear Hamiltonian (Eq. 16-19 in Section II.B). If bosons are not much faster than fermions, the effective interaction is not bilinear and the computed scaling exponents and phase boundaries lose their stated quantitative validity. The paper notes that comparable velocities would require RG-renormalized parameters, but all plotted phase diagrams (Figs. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7) rely on v_b/v_f = 3 or 5.

Original abstract

We study the quantum phase diagrams of Bose-Fermi mixtures of ultracold atoms confined to one dimension in an optical lattice. For systems with incommensurate densities, various quantum phases, e.g. charge/spin density waves, pairing, phase separation, and the Wigner crystal, are found to be dominant in different parameter regimes within a bosonization approach. The structure of the phase diagram leads us to propose that the system is best understood as a Luttinger liquid of polarons (i.e. atoms of one species surrounded by screening clouds of the other species). Special fillings, half-filling for fermions and unit filling for bosons, and the resulting gapped phases are also discussed, as well as the properties of the polarons and the experimental realization of these phases.

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We study the quantum phase diagrams of Bose-Fermi mixtures of ultracold atoms confined to one dimension in an optical lattice. For systems with incommensurate densities, various quantum phases, e.g. charge/spin density waves, pairing, phase separation, and the Wigner crystal, are found to be dominant in different parameter regimes within a bosonization approach. The structure of the phase diagram leads us to propose that the system is best understood as a Luttinger liquid of polarons (i.e. atoms of one species surrounded by screening clouds of the other species). Special fillings, half-filling for fermions and unit filling for bosons, and the resulting gapped phases are also discussed, as well as the properties of the polarons and the experimental realization of these phases.

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s1 For systems with incommensurate densities, various quantum phases, e.g. charge/spin density waves, pairing, phase separation, and the Wigner crystal, are found to be dominant in different parameter regimes within a bosonization approach. result 1.00 0.87 0.17 asserted 1.00
s2 The structure of the phase diagram leads us to propose that the system is best understood as a Luttinger liquid of polarons (i.e. atoms of one species surrounded by screening clouds of the other species). interpretation 1.00 0.78 0.70 hedged possibility 0.52
s3 Special fillings, half-filling for fermions and unit filling for bosons, and the resulting gapped phases are also discussed, as well as the properties of the polarons and the experimental realization of these phases. contribution 0.68 0.75 0.09 asserted 0.80

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Figure 1. FIG. 1: (a) Scaling exponents of various order parameters
Figure 3. FIG. 3: (a) Phase diagram for a mixture of bosonic and
Figure 4. FIG. 4: Phase diagram of a BFM with spinless fermions at
Figure 6. FIG. 6: Linearized renormalization flow of the parameters
Figure 7. FIG. 7: Phase diagrams for a mixture of bosonic and
Figure 8. FIG. 8: Plot of the ’dressing’ parameter

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