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DILUTE QUANTUM DROPLETS Aurel Bulgac Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 050402 (2002)

DILUTE QUANTUM DROPLETS Aurel Bulgac Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 050402 (2002). Quantum Fluids at T = 0. Liquid 4 He and 3 He Electrons (but only embedded in an ion background) BEC in alkali atoms and hydrogen and the Fermi-Dirac counterparts – gas (but only in traps)

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DILUTE QUANTUM DROPLETS Aurel Bulgac Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 050402 (2002)

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  1. DILUTE QUANTUM DROPLETS Aurel Bulgac Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 050402 (2002)

  2. Quantum Fluids at T = 0 • Liquid 4He and 3He • Electrons (but only embedded in an ion background) • BEC in alkali atoms and hydrogen and the Fermi-Dirac counterparts – gas (but only in traps) • Nuclei (but Z < 115 and N < 186 so far) • Neutron stars (gravitationally bound) In the core of neutron stars color superconductivity (quarks) is likely • The most ethereal droplets ever: the boselets, the fermilets and the ferbolets

  3. Energy density of a dilute bose gas a > 0 ra3 << 1 Bogoliubov 1947 Lee and Yang 1957 Wu 1959 Hugengoltz and Pines 1959 Sawada 1959 Braaten and Nieto 1999

  4. BEC in alkali atoms - Anderson, Ensher, Matthews, Wieman, Cornel Science, 269, 198 (1995) 87Rb, a>0 - Bradley, Sackett, Tollett, Hulet PRL, 75, 1687 (1995) 7Li, a <0 ! - Davis, Mewes, Andrews, van Druten, Kurn, Ketterle PRL, 75, 3969 (1995) 23Na, a>0

  5. a > 0, effective repulsion, need traps • ra3 << 1 • the state is stable with respect to • long wave density fluctuations • if there are bound two-particle states • then BEC decays • A + A + A A2 + A

  6. a < 0 ? the system is unstable with respect to density fluctuations and collapses • - Gerton, Strekalov, Prodan, Hulet, Nature 408, 692 (2000) • Direct Observation of Growth and Collapse of a • Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interactions • Roberts, Claussen, Cornish, Donley, Cornell, Wieman, • Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4211 (2001), Bosenova • Controlled Collapse of a Bose-Einstein Condensate • Condensate with Attractive Interactions • see alsoNature, 412, 295 (2001).

  7. Case a > 0 - r0 (radius of interaction) a = O(r0) • only s-wave interaction is relevant, since ra3 << 1 - However, the Feshbach resonance changes the physics

  8. Feshbach resonance Tiesinga, Verhaar, StoofPhys. Rev. A47, 4114 (1993)

  9. Tiesinga, Verhaar, StoofPhys. Rev. A47, 4114 (1993)

  10. Vogels, Tsai, Freeland, Kokkelmans, Verhaar, HeinzenPhys. Rev. A56, R1067 (1997)

  11. Vogels, Tsai, Freeland, Kokkelmans, Verhaar, HeinzenPhys. Rev. A56, R1067 (1997)

  12. Courteille, Freeland, Heinzen, van Abeelen,Verhaar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 69 (1998)

  13. Inouye, Andrews, Stenger, Miesner, Stamper-Kurn, Ketterle, Nature, 392, 151 (1998)

  14. Cornish, Clausen, Roberts, Cornel, Weinman,Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1795 (2000)

  15. Efimov effect - 1970 |a| >> r0 -Scaling -All states have the same JP=0+

  16. Case a <0 - Now there are two dimensionless parameters r|a|3 and r|r0|3 - g3 - the zero energy three-particle amplitude d1, d2<0 are universal constants and a0 is a genuine system dependent three-body parameter, Efimov 1979, numerical values computed by Braaten, Hammer and Mehen, 2002 E3 – the contribution to the energy density of the three-body collisions

  17. Quantum fluctuations • Even though boselets are formed when a<0 the next order corrections to the gs energy are still suppressed by the factor (r|a|3)1/2, as in the case of a dilute Bose gas with a>0. • Higher-order loops, including both g2 andg3, are controlled by the same parameter(r|a|3)1/2 - preliminary Paulo Bedaque, private communication

  18. The ground state energy of an ensemble of N bosons

  19. Gross-Pitaevski equation One can rescale the density, the energy and the unit of length

  20. Infinite homogeneousmatter Sound velocity Semi-infinite mater Surface tension Dispersion law for surface waves

  21. Slab of finite width

  22. Sphericaldroplets – boselets

  23. Density profiles of boselets with N = 1000, 3000, 10000, 50000, 250000 and 500000 particles

  24. Fermilets Efimov effect occurs only if three fermions are simultaneously in a relative s-state, thus: • Needfermions with spin s> 1/2 or • At least two different species with s=1/2 Bulgac and Efimov - 1975 Energy of afermilet:

  25. Trimer phase • Trimers can form and either a pure trimer BEC can form or a atom-trimer coherence can occur. Since the trimer size << |a| the density drops by a factor of 3. NB Atom-molecule coherence in BEC has been observed: Donley, Claussen, Thompson, Wieman, Nature, 417, 529 (2002). . In Fermilets trimers (fermions) can form as well and compete with Cooper pairs (bosons). NB The size of Cooper pairs is expected to be >> |a| while trimers’ size is << |a|. . Since Efimov effect occurs only in a three-body system, these trimer phases are perhaps unique in a sense if they take place.

  26. Conclusions -A whole new class of self-bound quantum liquids, superfluids. • At T=0 the boselets are almost 100% BEC and liquid (not gaseous) and extremely dilute • Widely tunable properties, one can manufacture “designer nuclei” with given density, arbitrary number of particles and “isotopic” composition • Mixtures of bosons and fermions – ferbolets • Unusual new phases, in particular the trimer phase - Particularly simple properties, since essentially only s-wave interactions are relevant

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