Spin-charge separation in a 1D Fermi gas with tunable interactions

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dc.contributor.advisorHulet, Randall G
dc.creatorCavazos Cavazos, Danyel Eduardo
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-04T20:28:06Z
dc.date.available2023-01-04T20:28:06Z
dc.date.created2022-12
dc.date.issued2022-12-01
dc.date.submittedDecember 2022
dc.date.updated2023-01-04T20:28:06Z
dc.description.abstractInteracting fermions that are confined to 1D can only support collective excitations and are thus governed by the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) theory, in which collective excitations decouple into charge and spin modes instead of particle-like excitations. Over the course of this work we have realized analog quantum simulations of the TLL model using a 6-Li atomic system. By taking advantage of a magnetic Feshbach resonance we readily tune the interactions of the sample so that we can transition from a non-interacting gas to either a strongly repulsive or a strongly attractive system, and probe the dynamics of the system within these regimes. By using low-momentum Bragg spectroscopy we were able to measure and characterize the spin-charge separation of a TLL. Our work also presents the first observation of spin and charge density waves that are separately excited from the ground state through a Bragg perturbation. The observed dynamical response function of the spin and charge excitations remarkably captures both the universal behavior of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, as well as the non-linear effects related to the band curvature effect in the charge sector and the back-scattering interaction effect in the spin sector. Up to now considering higher-order corrections to the linear dispersion in either the spin or charge degrees of freedom had remained out of reach for both theory and experiment. In addition to this, we also realized a spin-incoherent Luttinger liquid and characterized its temperature crossover between the coherent and incoherent regimes. On the attractive interactions regime we observe an inversion of spin-charge separation, and we also have seen preliminary signatures of confinement-induced 1D bound states.
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dc.identifier.citationCavazos Cavazos, Danyel Eduardo. "Spin-charge separation in a 1D Fermi gas with tunable interactions." (2022) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/114211">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/114211</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/114211
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectAtomic Physics
dc.subjectFermi gases
dc.subjectLuttinger liquids
dc.subjectSpin-charge separation
dc.titleSpin-charge separation in a 1D Fermi gas with tunable interactions
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialText
thesis.degree.departmentPhysics and Astronomy
thesis.degree.disciplineNatural Sciences
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
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