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ICAP Summer School, Paris, 2012
Three lectures on quantum gases
Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
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Cold fermions
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W. Ketterle and M. W. Zwierlein: Making, probing and understanding ultracold Fermi gases. in Ultracold Fermi Gases , Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course CLXIV, Varenna, 20 - 30 June 2006, edited by M. Inguscio, W. Ketterle, and C. Salomon (IOS Press, Amsterdam) 2008, pp. 95-287; e-print, arXiv: 0801.2500; Rivista del Nuovo Cimento 31 , 247-422 (2008).
Reference for most of this talk:
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Li Na cooling movie Lithium Sodium
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Bosons Particles with an even number of protons, neutrons and electrons
Fermions Particles with an odd number of protons, neutrons and electrons
Bose-Einstein condensation ⇒ atoms as waves ⇒ superfluidity
At absolute zero temperature …
Fermi sea: ⇒ Atoms are not coherent ⇒ No superfluidity
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Freezing out of collisions Pair correlations in a Fermi gas:
Distance 0
λdB
g(2)(r)
No interactions if range of potential is < λdB Elastic collisions suppressed below Tpwave
0
1
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Elastic cross section for K-40 (Jin group, PRL 1999)
identical fermions, p-wave
fermion mixture s-wave
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Two kinds of fermions
Fermi sea: ⇒ Atoms are not coherent ⇒ No superfluidity
Pairs of fermions Particles with an even number of protons, neutrons and electrons
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At absolute zero temperature …
Pairs of fermions Particles with an even number of protons, neutrons and electrons
Bose-Einstein condensation ⇒ atoms as waves ⇒ superfluidity
Two kinds of fermions Particles with an odd number of protons, neutrons and electrons
Fermi sea: ⇒ Atoms are not coherent ⇒ No superfluidity
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Two kinds of fermions Particles with an odd number of protons, neutrons and electrons
Fermi sea: ⇒ Atoms are not coherent ⇒ No superfluidity
Weak attractive interactions Cooper pairs larger than interatomic distance momentum correlations ⇒ BCS superfluidity
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E
Feshbach resonance
Magnetic field
Free atoms
Molecule
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E
Feshbach resonance
Magnetic field
Free atoms
Molecule
Disclaimer: Drawing is schematic and does not distinguish nuclear
and electron spin.
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E
Feshbach resonance
Magnetic field
Molecule
Two atoms ….
Free atoms
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E
Feshbach resonance
Magnetic field
Molecule
… form a stable molecule
Free atoms
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E
Feshbach resonance
Magnetic field
Molecule
Atoms attract each other
Free atoms
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E
Feshbach resonance
Magnetic field
Molecule
Atoms attract each other Atoms repel each other
Free atoms
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Feshbach resonance
Magnetic field
Atoms attract each other Atoms repel each other
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Feshbach loss and a (JPEG) Observation of a Feshbach resonance
S. Inouye, M.R. Andrews, J. Stenger, H.-J. Miesner, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, WK, Nature 392 (1998).
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Molecules
Atoms
Energy
Magnetic field
Molecules are unstable Atoms form stable molecules Atoms repel each other
a>0 Atoms attract each other
a<0
BEC of Molecules: Condensation of
tightly bound fermion pairs
BCS-limit: Condensation of
long-range Cooper pairs
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Bose Einstein condensate of molecules
BCS Superconductor
Atom pairs Electron pairs
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Molecular BEC BCS superfluid
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Molecular BEC BCS superfluid
Magnetic field
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Molecular BEC BCS superfluid Crossover superfluid
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How do atoms pair?
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Two-body bound states in 1D, 2D, and 3D
1D, 2D: bound state for arbitrarily small attractive well 3D: Well depth has be larger than threshold
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Connection to the density of states
In momentum space
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Connection to the density of states
In momentum space
Short range potential: V(q)=V0 for q<1/R
Integrate over q, divide by common factor
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Bound state for arbitrarily small V0 only if integral diverges for E→0
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Bound state for arbitrarily small V0 only if integral diverges for E→0
In 2D (constant density of states): logarithmic divergence
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The Cooper problem:
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Two fermions with weak interactions on top of a filled Fermi sea
Total momentum zero Total momentum non-zero 2q
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Pauli blocking
Compare with previous result for single particle bound state
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Pauli blocking
After replacing the bare interaction V0 by the scattering length a
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Cooper Pairing Consider two particles ↑, ↓, on top of a filled, “inert” Fermi sea
Total momentum zero Total momentum non-zero • Reduced density of states • Much smaller binding energy
The important pairs are those with zero momentum
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BCS Wavefunction
John Bardeen Leon N. Cooper John R. Schrieffer
How can we find a state in which all fermions are paired in a self-consistent way?
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BCS Wavefunction • Many-body wavefunction for a condensate of Fermion Pairs:
Spatial pair wavefunction Spin wavefunction
• Second quantization:
• Fourier transform: Pair wavefunction: Operators:
• Pair creation operator:
• Many-body wavefunction: a fermion pair condensate
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is not a Bose condensate
• Commutation relations for pair creation/annihilation operators
Occupation of momentum k • pairs do not obey Bose commutation relations, unless
BEC limit of tightly bound molecules
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BCS Wavefunction • Introduce coherent state / switch to grand-canonical description:
commute and ’
because
• Normalization:
• BCS wavefunction:
with and
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BCS Wavefunction
and
are identical!
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Many-Body Hamiltonian • Second quantized Hamiltonian for interacting fermions:
• Contact interaction: • Fourier transform via
• BCS Approximation: Only include scattering between zero-momentum pairs
• Solve via 1) Variational Ansatz, 2) via Bogoliubov transformation
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Variational Ansatz: • Insert BCS wavefunction into Many-Body Hamiltonian. • Minimize Free Energy:
• Result:
• Gap equation:
Ek
Δ
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Solution via Bogoliubov Transform • BCS Hamiltonian is quartic:
• Introduce pairing field (mean field or decoupling approximation):
• Neglect products (correlations) of those small fluctuations small fluctuations (assumption)
• Define
This plays the role of the condensate wavefunction
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Solution via Bogoliubov Transform • Rewrite Hamiltonian, drop terms quadratic in C’s:
Hamiltonian is now bilinear • Solve via Bogoliubov transformation to quasiparticle operators:
• With the choice and we get
Ground state energy Non-interacting gas of fermionic quasi-particles
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Solution of the gap equation
Looks similar to equation for bound state in 2D (and Cooper problem)
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Solution of the gap equation • Gap equation:
• Number equation:
• Simultaneously solve for µ and Δ
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Solution of the gap equation
BCS-side: Gap exponentially small BEC-side: Molecules
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Critical temperature • Can be derived from Bogoliubov Hamiltonian with fluctuations
4 2 0 -2 BEC-limit: BCS-limit:
TC/TF Conventional SC: 10-5…10-4 Superfluid 3He: 10-3 High-TC SC: 10-2
High-TC Superfluid: 0.15
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Experimental realization of the
BEC-BCS Crossover
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Optical trapping @ 1064 nm
νaxial = 10-20 Hz νradial= 50–200 Hz Etrap = 0.5 - 5 µK
Preparation of an interacting Fermi system in Lithium-6 Electronic spin: S = ½, Nuclear Spin: I = 1
(2I+1)(2S+1) = 6 hyperfine states
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M.W. Zwierlein, C. A. Stan, C. H. Schunck, S.M.F. Raupach, S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, W. Ketterle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 250401 (2003)
BEC of Fermion Pairs (Molecules)
Boulder Nov ‘03 Innsbruck Nov ‘03, Jan ’04 MIT Nov ’03 Paris March ’04 Rice, Duke
These days: Up to 10 million condensed molecules
T > TC T < TC T TC
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JILA, Nature 426, 537 (2003).
Innsbruck, PRL 92, 120401 (2004).
ENS, PRL 93, 050401 (2004).
MIT, PRL 91, 250401 (2003)
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First observation: C.A. Regal et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040403 (2004)
M.W. Zwierlein, C.A. Stan, C.H. Schunck, S.M.F. Raupach, A.J. Kerman, W. Ketterle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 120403 (2004).
Observation of Pair Condensates
BEC-Side BCS-Side Resonance (above dissociation limit for molecules)
Thermal + condensed pairs
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kF|a| > 1
Condensate Fraction vs Magnetic Field
M.W. Zwierlein, C.A. Stan, C.H. Schunck, S.M.F. Raupach, A.J. Kerman, W. Ketterle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 120403 (2004).
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How can we show that these gases are superfluid?
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Vortices in the BEC-BCS Crossover
Vortex lattices in the BEC-BCS crossover
M.W. Zwierlein, J.R. Abo-Shaeer, A. Schirotzek, C.H. Schunck, W. Ketterle, Nature 435, 1047-1051 (2005)
- 0.7 B
Establishes superfluidity and phase coherence in gases of fermionic atom pairs
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Superfluidity of fermions requires pairing of fermions
Microscopic study of the pairs by RF spectroscopy
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RF spectroscopy
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Dissociation spectrum measures the Fourier transform of the pair wavefunction
Width ∝ (1/pair size)2
Threshold ∝ (1/pair size)2
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Standard superconductors ξ>> 1/kF
High Tc superconductors ξ ≈ 6 …10 (1/kF)
Superfluid at unitarity ξ = 2.6 (1/kF)
C. H. Schunck, Y. Shin, A. Schirotzek, W. Ketterle, Nature 454, 739 (2008).
Rf spectra in the crossover
Confirms correlation between high Tc and small pairs
Interparticle spacing ~ 3.1 (1/kF) “Molecular character” of fermion pairs
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Excitations in a superfluid
Holes Particles
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Δ2/2EF
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How to inject quasi-particles near the Fermi surface?
kT≈ Δ -µ↑
Population imbalance
µ↓
µ↑
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RF Spectroscopy of a BCS superfluid
• Final state empty, measures integrated (over k) spectrum • RF photon creates quasiparticle and free particle in third state
free particle dispersion
quasiparticle dispersion
“cold injected” quasiparticles
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Δ2/2EF Δ
BCS limit: splitting becomes exactly Δ
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Polarized Superfluid
Splitting allows a direct determination of the superfluid gap Δ
Δ = 0.44 EF
QMC (Carlson, Reddy 2008) Δ = 0.45 EF
Related experiment JILA: RF photoemission
A. Schirotzek, Y. Shin, C.H. Schunck, W.K., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140403 (2008).
local double peak: Stokes and Anti-Stokes peak BCS T→0 limit: Splitting is exactly Δ
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Now: Fermions with repulsive interactions
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Molecules
Atoms
Energy
Magnetic field
Molecules are unstable Atoms form stable molecules Atoms repel each other a>0
Atoms attract each other a<0
BEC of Molecules: Condensation of tightly bound fermion pairs
BCS-limit: Condensation of long-range Cooper pairs
Feshbach Resonance
Itinerant Ferromagnetism Stoner instability in a free gas
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Increasing kFa
Itinerant Ferromagnetic Phase Transition in Ultracold gases
: Spin
: Spin
Energy
22/3
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A Fermi gas with short-range repulsive interactions
Kinetic energy
Stoner model
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Mean-field approximation for interaction term:
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local magnetization
K.E. spin up K.E. spin down
repulsive mean field interaction
phase transition for
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• Prepared a two-component Fermi gas( ~ 0.65 million per each spin state) • Vary repulsive interactions near Feshbach resonance located at 834 G
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• Suggests that itinerant FM can occur for a free gas with short-range interactions • First study of quantum magnetism in cold fermionic atoms • Quantum simulation of a Hamiltonian for which even the existence of a phase transition is unknown
G.B. Jo, Y.R. Lee, J.H. Choi, C.A. Christensen, H. Kim, J. Thywissen, D.E. Pritchard, W.K.,
Science 325, 1521-1524 (2009).
BUT: • Lifetime only 10 ms • Molecular fraction 25 % • Magnetic domains not resolved • Ferromagnetic fluctuations vs. ferromagnetic ground state
Three observations of non-monotonic behavior when approaching the Feshbach resonance
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More recent work: • No ferromagnetic transition • Rapid decay into pairs
⇒ Highly correlated gas, breakdown of mean field description ⇒ Atoms with strong repulsion cannot be isolated from molecules
C. Sanner, E.J. Su, W. Huang, A. Keshet, J. Gillen, W.K., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 240404 (2012)
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Molecules
Atoms
Energy
Magnetic field
Molecules are unstable Atoms form stable molecules Atoms repel each other a>0
Atoms attract each other a<0
BEC of Molecules: Condensation of tightly bound fermion pairs
BCS-limit: Condensation of long-range Cooper pairs
Feshbach Resonance
Itinerant Ferromagnetism Stoner instability in a free gas
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Cold atomic gases provide the building blocks of quantum simulators
Quantum “engineering” of interesting Hamiltonians
Ultracold Bose gases: superfluidity (like 4He)
Ultracold Fermi gases (with strong interactions near the unitartiy limit): pairing and superfluidity (BCS, like superconductors)
Optical lattices: crystalline materials
Soon: magnetism in strongly correlated systems