Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2000-11-13
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Revtex, 11 pages, 1 table as ps file, 4 figures as ps files
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.64.013608
We consider a gas of N(=6, 10, 15) Bose particles with hard-core repulsion, contained in a quasi-2D harmonic trap and subjected to an overall angular velocity $\Omega$ about the z-axis. Exact diagonalization of the $n\times n$ many-body Hamiltonian matrix in given subspaces of the total (quantized) angular momentum L$_{z}$, with $n\sim 10^{5}$(e.g. for L$_{z}$=N=15, n =240782) was carried out using Davidson's algorithm. The many-body variational ground state wavefunction, as also the corresponding energy and the reduced one-particle density-matrix were calculated. With the usual identification of $\Omega$ as the Lagrange multiplier associated with L$_{z}$ for a rotating system, the $L_{z}-\Omega$ phase diagram (or the stability line) was determined that gave a number of critical angular velocities $\Omega_{{\bf c}i}, i=1,2,3,... ,$ at which the ground state angular momentum and the associated condensate fraction undergo abrupt jumps. A number of (total) angular momentum states were found to be stable at successively higher critical angular velocities $\Omega_{{\bf c}i}, \ i=1,2,3,...$ for a given N. For $L_{z}>N$, the condensate was strongly depleted. The critical $\Omega_{{\bf c}i}$ values, however, decreased with increasing interaction strength as well as the particle number, and were systematically greater than the non-variational Yrast-state values for the single vortex state with L$_{z}$ =N. We have also observed that the condensate fraction for the single vortex state (as also for the higher vortex states) did not change significantly even as the 2-body interaction strength was varied over several $(\sim 4)$ orders of magnitude in the moderately to the weakly interacting regime.
Ahsan M. A. H.
Kumar Nirman
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