Collective oscillations of a trapped quantum gas in low dimensions

Giulia De Rosi and Sandro Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 92, 053617 – Published 18 November 2015

Abstract

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 appearance 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 and cigar as well as in the deep two- and one-dimensional regimes. Our results agree with the analytical predictions available in the literature in some limiting cases. They are particularly relevant in one-dimensional configurations, where the study of the collective frequencies could provide a unique test of the achievement of the collisional regime at finite temperature.

  • Received 29 July 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.053617

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Giulia De Rosi* and Sandro Stringari

  • INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, Via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Povo, Italy

  • *giulia.derosi@unitn.it
  • stringar@science.unitn.it

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Vol. 92, Iss. 5 — November 2015

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