One-dimensional multicomponent Fermi gas in a trap: quantum Monte Carlo study

A one-dimensional world is very unusual as there is an interplay between quantum statistics and geometry, and a strong short-range repulsion between atoms mimics Fermi exclusion principle, fermionizing the system. Instead, a system with a large number of components with a single atom in each, on the...

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Autores: Matveeva, N., Astrakharchik, Grigori|||0000-0003-0394-8094
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/102684
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/102684
https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/6/065009
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Monte Carlo method
Electron gas
quantum Monte Carlo method
multicomponent Fermi gas
Tonks-Girardeau gas
Tan's contact
Montecarlo, Mètode de
Gas d'electrons
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:A one-dimensional world is very unusual as there is an interplay between quantum statistics and geometry, and a strong short-range repulsion between atoms mimics Fermi exclusion principle, fermionizing the system. Instead, a system with a large number of components with a single atom in each, on the opposite acquires many bosonic properties. We study the ground-state properties of a multicomponent repulsive Fermi gas trapped in a harmonic trap by a fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo method. The interaction between all components is considered to be the same. We investigate how the energetic properties (energy, contact) and correlation functions (density profile and momentum distribution) evolve as the number of components is changed. It is shown that the system fermionizes in the limit of strong interactions. Analytical expressions are derived in the limit of weak interactions within the local density approximation for an arbitrary number of components and for one plus one particle using an exact solution.