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Ultracold atoms: overview and perspectives
Franco Dalfovo
INFM-BEC andDipartimento di fisica,
Università degli Studi di Trento
Valencia, 25 April 2007
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Production of liquid oxigen by Raoul Pictet (1877)
Hot is much simpler than cold !
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Liquid helium observed at Leiden (1907)
Kamerlingh Onnes (left) and Van derWaals (right) with their refrigerator.
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Hot and cold
Melting copper
Low temperature physics
Just a boring little corner?
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superfluidity(Allen and Misener,
Kapitza,1938)anomaly in the specific heat(Leiden, 1927)
Superfluid helium
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Fritz London intuition: is superfluidity a manifestation of Bose-Einstein condensation ?
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(Taken from W. Ketterle)
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Hot and cold
Melting copper
Low temperature physics
Just a boring little corner?
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Cold, very cold, ultracold
Melting copper
Coldest gas, so far (450 pK)
Inside stars
Just a boring little corner?
An amazingly interestingnew frontier !!
The kingdom ofQuantum Mechanics
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First images of BEC with Rb atoms (JILA 1995)
At present: many condensates with more atomic species (R b, Na, Li, H, He*, K, Cs, Yb), including condensates of molecules ( Rb2, Na2, Cs2).
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Source: ISI – Web of ScienceKeywords: bos* AND condens* (blue); cold OR ultracold AND fermi* (red)
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Why BEC is important ?
Paradigm of statistical mechanics (phase transition in the absence of interactions).
Exact description of the effects of interactions for dilute gases.
Fundamental concepts (long range order; spontaneous symmetry breaking; etc.) which play an important role in many areas of physics.
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(taken fromDebbie Jin, JILA)
Most recent: polariton gas in 2D cavities
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Why BEC is important ?
Paradigm of statistical mechanics (phase transition in the absence of interactions).
Exact description of the effects of interactions for dilute gases.
Fundamental concepts (long range order; spontaneous symmetry breaking; etc.) which play an important role in many areas of physics.
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Why BEC is important ?
Paradigm of statistical mechanics (phase transition in the absence of interactions).
Exact description of the effects of interactions for dilute gases.
Fundamental concepts (long range order; spontaneous symmetry breaking; etc.) which play an important role in many areas of physics.
Tuning the interaction and/or the external confining potentials:
from single-particle “textbook” physics to correlated many-body physics
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Most of the properties of dilute BECs are welldescribed by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (1961).
The GP equation gives the behavior, in space and time, of the macroscopic matterwave (see the analogy with Maxwell equations describing electromagnetic waves!).
The GP equation accounts for the interatomic forces through a mean-field term, so that it takes the form of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation (many analogies withnonlinear optics).
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Those due to interaction :- sound propagation and collective oscillations- solitary waves
Those due to phase coherence :- interference- atom laser
Superfluid properties (interaction + coherence):- viscousless motion- quantized vortices- Josephson effect
Some relevant properties of BEC
Quantum phase transitions : - Superfluid - Mott insulator- Kosterlitz-Thouless
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ΨΨΨΨ = n1/2 e iS
n = condensate density
S = phase
v = ( ħ/ m) ∇∇∇∇ S = superfluid velocity
IRROTATIONAL !
ORDER PARAMETER
LINK BETWEEN BEC AND SUPERFLUIDITY
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Consequence of irrotationality: quantized vortices
(Ketterle et al., MIT, 2001)
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Quantized vortices in BEC(Dalibard et al., ENS-Paris, 2000)
Quantized vortices in superfluid helium
(Packard et al., Berkeley, 1974)
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BEC (Cornell et al. JILA, 2002)
Abrikosov lattice in type IIsuperconductors
Vortex lattice
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INTERFERENCE BETWEEN TWO CONDENSATES
Another consequence of the phase of the order parameter:
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INTERFERENCE BETWEEN TWO CONDENSATES
Another consequence of the phase of the order parameter:
(Ketterle et al. MIT, 1996)
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INTERFERENCE BETWEEN TWO CONDENSATES
Another consequence of the phase of the order parameter:
MATTER WAVES
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Weakly interacting Bose gas: Bogoliubov sound
bq = uq aq + vq a†-q
b†q = uq a†q + vq a-q
These transformations allow one to diagonalize the many-body Hamiltonian of a weakly interacting Bose gas
Interacting particles Free quasiparticles
Quasiparticle : one of the most important concepts in condensed m atter physics !
(Ketterle et al. MIT, 1997)
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Finite size: Collective oscillationsexpt (MIT 97):theory (HD): ideal gas:
zωω 57.1=zωω 58.1=
zωω 2=
(Ketterle et al. MIT, 1996)
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Atoms in optical lattices
Superfluid
Insulator
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Bloch et al. Munich, 2002
Expanding a superfluid out of a lattice
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superfluid superfluidMott insulator
Superfluid toMott insulatorquantum phase transition
Superfluid
Insulator
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Physics at low D
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What about fermions?
A simple argument: • Condensation is only possible for BOSONS.• FERMIONS behave differently, due to Pauli.
7Li(BEC)
6Li(Fermi see)
(Salomon, ENS, 2001)
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(Rice, 2001)
Observing quantum statistics
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Fermi degeneracy
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BUT... Things are even more interesting
Fermionic atoms in the same spin state do not interact in s-wave (Pauli principle) !!
Mixtures of fermionic atoms in different spin states can interact in s-wave.
Three interesting cases: weak attractive interaction BCS superfluid phaseweak repulsive interaction and molecular bound state BEC of molecules
infinite s-wave scattering length unitary regime
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(taken fromDebbie Jin, JILA)
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(taken fromDebbie Jin, JILA)
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BCS-BEC crossover
degenerate Fermi gas
molecular BEC
FermionsBosons
na3=0.04
na3=0.28
na3= kF|a| = ∞
kF|a|=6
6Li atoms @ Innsbruck
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Experiments with ultracold fermions:
Are Fermi gases superfluid?
Superfluid hydrodynamics in the expansion (Duke, 2002)Pair condensation (JILA, MIT, 2004)Collective modes (Innsbruck, Duke, 2004)Measuring the BCS pairing gap (Innsbruck, 2004)Heat capacity (Duke, 2005)Quantized vortices (MIT, 2005)
Yes
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Hot topic: Fermi superfluids with imbalanced populations
A lot of theory papers in the lastyear.
Interesting physics in common with quark-gluon plasma andcolor superconductivity. In thiscase: balance of strange (s) and light (u,d) quarks. Possibleimplications in the physics of neutron stars.
Rice, 2006MIT, 2006
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Melting copper
Coldest gas, so far (450 pK)
Inside stars
Color superconductivity
Ultracold superfluid fermions
A lot of physicsin common
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New Probes• RF Spectroscopy• Noise Correlations
New settings:• Low Dimension• Fast rotation• Optical lattices• Ring traps• Atoms on chips• Interferometers
New states:• Entanglement and Schroedinger cats• Superfluid-Insulator transition• Fermi-Bose mixtures• BEC of dipolar molecules• Tonks-Girardeau gas• BCS-BEC crossover• Fermi gas at unitarity
Perspectives
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Parametric resonances in BEC(collaboration with M. Kraemer, C. Tozzo and M. Mogugno)
Solitons in 2D BEC(collaboration with S. Tsuchiya and L. Pitaevskii)
Bogoliubov – de Gennes equations for fermions(collaboration with E. Furlan, M. Antezza, S. Stringari and L. Pitaevskii)
What I am working on…
just two words about parametric resonances…
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Classical example: the vertically driven pendulum.Stationary solutions: φ = 0 and φ = 180°. In the undriven case, these solutions are always stable and unstable, respectively. But vertical driving can change stability into instability and vice versa. The dynamics is governed by the Mathieu equation:
(t) = c(t)exp( t), where c(t+1/f) = c(t).
Floquet exponent. If is is real and positive,then the oscillator is parametrically unstable.
Parametric resonance
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Very general phenomenon (classical oscillators, nonlinear optics, systems governed by a Non-Linear Schroedinger Equation, Hamiltonian chaotic systems, etc.)
Previously discussed in the context of BEC by several authors(Castin and Dum, Kagan and Maksimov, Kevrekidis et al., Garcia-Ripoll et al., Staliunas, Longhi and De Valcarcel, Salasnich et al., Salmond et al., Haroutyunyan and Nienhuis, Rapti et al).
Our contribution:
Parametric amplification of Bogoliubov phonons in BEC in modulated 1D optical lattices
Faraday pattern in toroidal condensates
Parametric resonance
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Experiment by Esslinger et al., Zurich
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Gross-Pitaevskii simulationsC. Tozzo, M. Krämer, and F. Dalfovo, PRA 71, 061602(R) (2005) and PRA 72, 023613 (2005)
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q [qB]
ω [
ER
/ h]\ ωq = Ω /2
resonance condition for
parametric amplification
Recipe: for a given Ω find the resonant q, then plot Ω/2 vs. q and comparewith the frequency of axial Bogoliubov phonons in the lattice ωq
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the main mechanism of parametric amplifications is acoupling between pairs of counter-propagating Bogoliubovexcitations. This coupling is caused by the modulation of thebackground in which the excitations live.
Important remark: in order to be parametrically amplified, the “resonant” mode must be present at t=0 (seed excitation). The parametric amplification is sensitive to the initial quantum and/or thermal fluctuations.
-q,ωq,ω
Ω=2ω
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Remarks on thermal and quantum seed
Two limiting cases:
Thermal fluctuations.Possible measurement of T, even when the thermalcloud is not visible (selective amplification ofthermally excited modes).
Amplification of quantum fluctuations.Analogous to parametric down-conversion in quantum optics.Source of entangled counter-propagating quasiparticles.
example:
Dynamic Casimir effect: the environment in which quasiparticleslive is periodically modulated in time and this modulationtransforms virtual quasiparticles into real quasiparticles (asphotons in oscillating cavities).
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Toroidal condensates
Procedure:
i) The condensate is initially prepared in a torus.ii) The transverse harmonic potential is periodically modulated in time.iii) Both the trap and the modulation are switched off and the condensate
expands.
We solve numerically the time dependent GP equation
We use the Wigner representation for fluctuations at equilibrium at step (i).
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Faraday pattern
in trap
after expansion
no modulation modulation
M. Modugno, C. Tozzo, F. Dalfovo, Phys. Rev. A 74, 061601(R) (2006)
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Patternvisibility(in trap)
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Yet a lot of activities with ultracold atomsworldwide…
part of them in Trento, at
UNITN: Stringari, Pitaevskii, Dalfovo, Giorgini. INFM researchers: Smerzi, Carusotto, Menotti, Calarco, Recati. Postdocs: Lobo, De Chiara, Tsuchiya, Antezza, Pezzè. Students: Pilati, Bariani, Bausmerth, Furlan, Piazza . Former members: Minniti, Guilleumas, Vichi, Brunello, Falco, Zambelli, Viverit, Weidong Li, Giorgetti, Poulsen, Pedri, Kraemer, Ianeselli, Trefzger, Jackson, Cozzini, Tozzo, Astrakharchik, Wouters, Idziaszek, Orso.
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