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Giulia De Rosi

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Particle-hole origin of thermal beating in dipole-compression modes of a 1D Bose gas

Using generalized hydrodynamics, we study the thermal behavior of dipole-compression collective oscillations in a harmonically trapped one-dimensional (1D) Bose gas across the crossover from weak to strong repulsive contact interactions. A key scale controlling this behavior is the temperature of the hole-induced anomaly, associated with the thermal population of hole excitations. In contrast to classical hydrodynamics, which predicts a single oscillation mode, we find a beating signal composed of two frequencies. As the temperature increases, both frequencies evolve from the low-temperature phononic hydrodynamic regime toward the collisionless limit around the anomaly temperature, without saturating at the values expected in the high-temperature collisional hydrodynamic regime. The lower frequency originates from hole excitations and is associated to low-energy oscillations, while the higher frequency emerges from particle excitations and corresponds to the dipole-compression mode. The thermal evolution of the relative excitation strengths of the two frequencies reflects the changing population imbalance between particle and hole spectral states across the anomaly. Our results reveal direct connections between excitations, thermodynamics, correlations, dynamics, and interparticle collisions, and may prove relevant to other atomic, nuclear, solid-state, electronic, and spin systems exhibiting similar anomalies or thermal second-order phase transitions.

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Thermal fading of the $1/k^4$-tail of the momentum distribution induced by the hole anomaly

We study the thermal behavior of correlations in a one-dimensional Bose gas with tunable interaction strength, crossing from weakly-repulsive to Tonks-Girardeau regime. A reference temperature in this system is that of the hole anomaly, observed as a peak in the specific heat and a maximum in the chemical potential. We find that at large momenta $k$ and temperature above the anomaly threshold, the tail $\mathcal{C}/k^4$ of the momentum distribution (proportional to the Tan contact $\mathcal{C}$) is screened by the $1/|k|^3$-term due to a dramatic thermal increase of the internal energy emerging from the thermal occupation of spectral excitation states. The same fading is consistently revealed in the behavior at short distances $x$ of the one-body density matrix (OBDM) where the $|x|^3$-dependence disappears for temperatures above the anomaly. We obtain a new general analytic tail for the momentum distribution and a minimum $k$ fixing its validity range, both calculated with exact Bethe-Ansatz method and valid in all interaction and thermal regimes, crossing from the quantum to the classical gas limit. Our predictions are confirmed by comparison with ab-initio Path Integral Monte Carlo calculations for the momentum distribution and the OBDM exploring a wide range of interaction strength and temperature. Our results unveil a novel connection between excitations and correlations. We expect them to be of interest to any cold atomic, nuclear, solid-state, electronic and spin system exhibiting an anomaly or a thermal second-order phase transition.

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Correlation properties of a one-dimensional repulsive Bose gas at finite temperature

We present a comprehensive study shedding light on how thermal fluctuations affect correlations in a Bose gas with contact repulsive interactions in one spatial dimension. The pair correlation function, the static structure factor, and the one-body density matrix are calculated as a function of the interaction strength and temperature with the exact ab-initio Path Integral Monte Carlo method. We explore all possible gas regimes from weak to strong interactions and from low to high temperatures. We provide a detailed comparison with a number of theories, such as perturbative (Bogoliubov and decoherent classical), effective (Luttinger liquid) and exact (ground-state and thermal Bethe Ansatz) ones. Our Monte Carlo results exhibit an excellent agreement with the tractable limits and provide a fundamental benchmark for future observations which can be achieved in atomic gases, cavity quantum-electrodynamic and superconducting-circuit platforms.

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Hole-induced anomaly in the thermodynamic behavior of a one-dimensional Bose gas

We reveal an intriguing anomaly in the temperature dependence of the specific heat of a one-dimensional Bose gas. The observed peak holds for arbitrary interaction and remembers a superfluid-to-normal phase transition in higher dimensions, but phase transitions are not allowed in one dimension. The presence of the anomaly signals a region of unpopulated states which behaves as an energy gap and is located below the hole branch in the excitation spectrum. The anomaly temperature is found to be of the same order of the energy of the maximum of the hole branch. We rely on the Bethe Ansatz to obtain the specific heat exactly and provide interpretations of the analytically tractable limits. The dynamic structure factor is computed with the Path Integral Monte Carlo method for the first time. We notice that at temperatures similar to the anomaly threshold, the energy of the thermal fluctuations become comparable with the maximal hole energy, leading to a qualitative change in the structure of excitations. This excitation pattern experiences the breakdown of the quasi-particle description for any value of the interaction strength at the anomaly, similarly to any superfluid phase transition at the critical temperature. We provide indications for future observations and how the hole anomaly can be employed for in-situ thermometry, identifying different collisional regimes and understanding other anomalies in atomic, solid-state, electronic, spin-chain and ladder systems.

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Thermal instability, evaporation and thermodynamics of one-dimensional liquids in weakly-interacting Bose-Bose mixtures

We study the low-temperature thermodynamics of weakly-interacting uniform liquids in one-dimensional attractive Bose-Bose mixtures.~The Bogoliubov approach is used to simultaneously describe quantum and thermal fluctuations. First, we investigate in detail two different thermal mechanisms driving the liquid-to-gas transition, the dynamical instability and the evaporation, and we draw the phase diagram. Then, we compute the main thermodynamic quantities of the liquid, such as the chemical potential, the Tan's contact, the adiabatic sound velocity and the specific heat at constant volume. The strong dependence of the thermodynamic quantities on the temperature may be used as a precise temperature probe for experiments on quantum liquids.

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Beyond-Luttinger-Liquid thermodynamics of a one-dimensional contact repulsive Bose gas

We present a thorough study of the thermodynamics of a one-dimensional repulsive Bose gas, focusing in particular on corrections beyond the Luttinger-liquid description. We compute the chemical potential, the pressure and the contact, as a function of temperature and gas parameter with exact thermal Bethe-Ansatz. In addition, we provide interpretations of the main features in the analytically tractable regimes, based on a variety of approaches (Bogoliubov, hard-core, Sommerfeld and virial). The beyond Luttinger-liquid thermodynamic effects are found to be non-monotonic as a function of gas parameter. Such behavior is explained in terms of non-linear dispersion and ``negative excluded volume'' effects, for weak and strong repulsion respectively, responsible for the opposite sign corrections in the thermal next-to-leading term of the thermodynamic quantities at low temperatures. Our predictions can be applied to other systems including super Tonks-Girardeau gases, dipolar and Rydberg atoms, helium, quantum liquid droplets in bosonic mixtures and impurities in a quantum bath.

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Superfluid Gap in Neutron Matter from a Microscopic Effective Interaction

Correlated Basis Function (CBF) perturbation theory and the formalism of cluster expansions have been recently employed to obtain an effective interaction from a nuclear Hamiltonian strongly constrained by phenomenology. We report the results of a study of the superfluid gap in pure neutron matter, associated with the formation of Cooper pairs in the $^1S_0$ channel. The calculations have been carried out using an improved version of the CBF effective interaction, in which three-nucleon forces are taken into account using a microscopic model. Our results show that a non-vanishing superfluid gap develops at densities in the range $2 \times 10^{-4} \lesssim ρ/ρ_0 \lesssim 0.1 $, where $ρ_0 = 2.8 \times 10^{14}$ g cm$^{-3}$ is the equilibrium density of isospin-symmetric nuclear matter, corresponding mainly to the neutron star inner crust.

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Thermodynamic behavior of a one-dimensional Bose gas at low temperature

We show that the chemical potential of a one-dimensional (1D) interacting Bose gas exhibits a non-monotonic temperature dependence which is peculiar of superfluids. The effect is a direct consequence of the phononic nature of the excitation spectrum at large wavelengths exhibited by 1D Bose gases. For low temperatures $T$, we demonstrate that the coefficient in $T^2$ expansion of the chemical potential is entirely defined by the zero-temperature density dependence of the sound velocity. We calculate that coefficient along the crossover between the Bogoliubov weakly-interacting gas and the Tonks-Girardeau gas of impenetrable bosons. Analytic expansions are provided in the asymptotic regimes. The theoretical predictions along the crossover are confirmed by comparison with the exactly solvable Yang-Yang model in which the finite-temperature equation of state is obtained numerically by solving Bethe-{\it ansatz} equations. A 1D ring geometry is equivalent to imposing periodic boundary conditions and arising finite-size effects are studied in details. At $T=0$ we calculated various thermodynamic functions, including the inelastic structure factor, as a function of the number of atoms, pointing out the occurrence of important deviations from the thermodynamic limit.

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Superfuidity in neutron-star matter

Correlated basis function perturbation theory and the formalism of cluster expansions have been recently employed to obtain an effective interaction from a state-of-the-art nuclear Hamiltonian. We report the results of a study of the superfluid gap in pure neutron matter, associated with formation of Cooper pairs in the $^1S_0$ sector. The calculations have been carried out using an improved version of the CBF effective interaction, in which three-nucleon forces are taken into account using a realistic microscopic model. Our results show that the superfluid transition occurs at densities corresponding to the neutron star inner crust, and that inclusion of three-nucleon interactions leads to a sizable reduction of the energy gap at the Fermi surface.

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Hydrodynamic VS collisionless dynamics of a 1D harmonically trapped Bose gas

By using a sum rule approach we investigate the transition between the hydrodynamic and the collisionless regime of the collective modes in a 1D harmonically trapped Bose gas. Both the weakly interacting gas and the Tonks-Girardeau limits are considered. We predict that the excitation of the dipole compression mode is characterized, in the high temperature collisionless regime, by a beating signal of two different frequencies ($ω_z$ and $3ω_z$) while, in the high temperature collisional regime, the excitation consists of a single frequency ($\sqrt{7}ω_z$). This behaviour differs from the case of the lowest breathing mode whose excitation consists of a single frequency ($2ω_z$) in both regimes. Our predictions for the dipole compression mode open promising perspectives for the experimental investigation of collisional effects in 1D configurations.

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Collective oscillations of a trapped quantum gas in low dimensions

We present a comprehensive study of the discretized modes of an atomic gas in different conditions of confinement. Starting from the equations of hydrodynamics we derive a closed equation for the velocity field, depending on the adiabatic and isothermal compressibilities and applicable to different dimensions and quantum statistics. At zero temperature the equation reproduces the irrotational behavior of superfluid hydrodynamics. It is also applicable above the critical temperature in the collisional regime, where the appearence of rotational components in the velocity field is caused by the external potential. In the presence of harmonic trapping, a general class of analytic solutions is obtained for systems exhibiting a polytropic equation of state, characterized by a power law isoentropic dependence of the pressure on the density. Explicit results for the compressional modes are derived for both Bose and Fermi gases in the pancake, cigar as well as in the deep 2D and 1D regimes. Our results agree with the analytical predictions available in the literature in some limiting cases. They are particularly relevant in 1D configurations, where the study of the collective frequencies could provide a unique test of the achievement of the collisional regime at finite temperature.

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The power spectrum of the seeing during solar observations

Measurements of the power spectrum of the atmospheric seeing in the line of sight of the Sun, in the range 0.001-1 Hz, have been performed in Santa Maria degli Angeli Lucernaria Dome, at IRSOL and in Huairou Station. This study is aimed to understand the criticity of the meridian transits method for solar diameter monitoring.

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