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Critical behaviours of contact near phase transitions
- Source :
- Nature Communications 5:5140 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- A central quantity of importance for ultracold atoms is contact, which measures two-body correlations at short distances in dilute systems. It appears in universal relations among thermodynamic quantities, such as large momentum tails, energy, and dynamic structure factors, through the renowned Tan relations. However, a conceptual question remains open as to whether or not contact can signify phase transitions that are insensitive to short-range physics. Here we show that, near a continuous classical or quantum phase transition, contact exhibits a variety of critical behaviors, including scaling laws and critical exponents that are uniquely determined by the universality class of the phase transition and a constant contact per particle. We also use a prototypical exactly solvable model to demonstrate these critical behaviors in one-dimensional strongly interacting fermions. Our work establishes an intrinsic connection between the universality of dilute many-body systems and universal critical phenomena near a phase transition.<br />Comment: Final version published in Nat. Commun. 5:5140 doi: 10.1038/ncomms6140 (2014)
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Nature Communications 5:5140 (2014)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1405.2256
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6140