Core-Hole Excitation Dynamics of One-Dimensional Ultracold Trapped Fermions

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Autori principali: Becker, André, Koutentakis, Georgios M., Schmelcher, Peter
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author Becker, André
Koutentakis, Georgios M.
Schmelcher, Peter
author_facet Becker, André
Koutentakis, Georgios M.
Schmelcher, Peter
contents We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of core-hole excitations in a one-dimensional fermionic few-body system consisting of a spin-polarized Fermi bath coupled to a single heavy mobile impurity. The bath is initially prepared in a particle-hole configuration by emptying a selected bath single-particle orbital, while the impurity is displaced with respect to the center of the bath confinement potential. The quench dynamics are initialized by suddenly switching on the impurity-bath interaction. To resolve the resulting dynamics, we combine two complementary \textit{ab initio} approaches, namely the Multi-Layer Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree method for mixtures and a multi-channel Born-Oppenheimer framework. We show that the postquench response is governed by the interaction strength, impurity confinement, mass imbalance, and the location of the initially prepared hole within the Fermi sea. The density evolution and impurity center-of-mass motion reveal a competition between mixing and demixing of impurity and bath, while the von Neumann entropy demonstrates the buildup of pronounced many-body correlations. Most importantly, the occupation dynamics of the initially emptied orbital identifies deep core holes as substantially more robust against refilling than bulk or edge vacancies. Our results establish core-hole excitations as robust dynamical many-body features in trapped ultracold fermions and provide a controlled route towards probing orthogonality response, correlation buildup, and hole refilling in real time.
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spellingShingle Core-Hole Excitation Dynamics of One-Dimensional Ultracold Trapped Fermions
Becker, André
Koutentakis, Georgios M.
Schmelcher, Peter
Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of core-hole excitations in a one-dimensional fermionic few-body system consisting of a spin-polarized Fermi bath coupled to a single heavy mobile impurity. The bath is initially prepared in a particle-hole configuration by emptying a selected bath single-particle orbital, while the impurity is displaced with respect to the center of the bath confinement potential. The quench dynamics are initialized by suddenly switching on the impurity-bath interaction. To resolve the resulting dynamics, we combine two complementary \textit{ab initio} approaches, namely the Multi-Layer Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree method for mixtures and a multi-channel Born-Oppenheimer framework. We show that the postquench response is governed by the interaction strength, impurity confinement, mass imbalance, and the location of the initially prepared hole within the Fermi sea. The density evolution and impurity center-of-mass motion reveal a competition between mixing and demixing of impurity and bath, while the von Neumann entropy demonstrates the buildup of pronounced many-body correlations. Most importantly, the occupation dynamics of the initially emptied orbital identifies deep core holes as substantially more robust against refilling than bulk or edge vacancies. Our results establish core-hole excitations as robust dynamical many-body features in trapped ultracold fermions and provide a controlled route towards probing orthogonality response, correlation buildup, and hole refilling in real time.
title Core-Hole Excitation Dynamics of One-Dimensional Ultracold Trapped Fermions
topic Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23785