Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2005-05-17
Physical Review A 72 (2005) 023616
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
14 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. A
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.023616
We discuss the effective interactions between two localized perturbations in one-dimensional (1D) quantum liquids. For non-interacting fermions, the interactions exhibit Friedel oscillations, giving rise to a RKKY-type interaction familiar from impurity spins in metals. In the interacting case, at low energies, a Luttinger liquid description applies. In the case of repulsive fermions, the Friedel oscillations of the interacting system are replaced, at long distances, by a universal Casimir-type interaction which depends only on the sound velocity and decays inversely with the separation. The Casimir-type interaction between localized perturbations embedded in a fermionic environment gives rise to a long range coupling between quantum dots in ultracold Fermi gases, opening a novel alternative to couple qubits with neutral atoms. We also briefly discuss the case of bosonic quantum liquids in which the interaction between weak impurities turns out to be short ranged, decaying exponentially on the scale of the healing length.
Fuchs Jean-Noël
Peca Claudia Sofia
Recati Alessio
Zwerger Wilhelm
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