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Main Authors: Chergui, L., Brauneis, F., Cardinale, T. Arnone, Schubert, M., Volosniev, A. G., Reimann, S. M.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09372
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author Chergui, L.
Brauneis, F.
Cardinale, T. Arnone
Schubert, M.
Volosniev, A. G.
Reimann, S. M.
author_facet Chergui, L.
Brauneis, F.
Cardinale, T. Arnone
Schubert, M.
Volosniev, A. G.
Reimann, S. M.
contents The presence of a single attractive impurity in an ultracold repulsive bosonic system can drive a transition from a homogeneous to a localized state, as we here show for a one-dimensional ring system. In the few-body limit the localization of the bosons around the impurity, as seen in the pair correlations, is accompanied by low-lying modes that resemble finite-size precursors of Higgs-Anderson and Nambu-Goldstone-like modes. Tuning the impurity-boson mass ratio allows for the exploration of the transition from a spontaneous to an explicit breaking of the continuous rotational symmetry of the Hamiltonian. We compare the minimum of the Higgs-Anderson-like mode as a marker of the onset of localization in the few-body limit to mean-field predictions of binding. We find improved agreement between the few-body exact diagonalization results and mean-field predictions of binding with increasing boson-boson repulsion.
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spellingShingle From spontaneous to explicit symmetry breaking in a finite-sized system: Bosonic bound states of an impurity
Chergui, L.
Brauneis, F.
Cardinale, T. Arnone
Schubert, M.
Volosniev, A. G.
Reimann, S. M.
Quantum Gases
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Physics
The presence of a single attractive impurity in an ultracold repulsive bosonic system can drive a transition from a homogeneous to a localized state, as we here show for a one-dimensional ring system. In the few-body limit the localization of the bosons around the impurity, as seen in the pair correlations, is accompanied by low-lying modes that resemble finite-size precursors of Higgs-Anderson and Nambu-Goldstone-like modes. Tuning the impurity-boson mass ratio allows for the exploration of the transition from a spontaneous to an explicit breaking of the continuous rotational symmetry of the Hamiltonian. We compare the minimum of the Higgs-Anderson-like mode as a marker of the onset of localization in the few-body limit to mean-field predictions of binding. We find improved agreement between the few-body exact diagonalization results and mean-field predictions of binding with increasing boson-boson repulsion.
title From spontaneous to explicit symmetry breaking in a finite-sized system: Bosonic bound states of an impurity
topic Quantum Gases
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09372