Nazwa | Konwersatorium CFT PAN |
Tytuł | Elementary excitations in superfluid Fermi gases |
Szczegóły | I will discuss the excitation spectrum of an ultracold gas of paired fermions in its superfluid phase. There remain important open questions on this fundamental subject of many-body quantum physics, and cold atom experiments have now the capacity to answer them. Like in other superfluids, the lowest-energy excitations are phonons: collective modes of density fluctuations. But unlike most superfluids, the phonon dispersion may become subsonic in a Fermi gas, which has important consequences on the interaction mechanisms between phonons, and thus on the system's dissipative properties. At higher energy, I will show that another collective branch, related to excitations of the order-parameter amplitude, exists inside the continuum of fermionic pair-breaking excitations. The observability and dispersion relation of this branch (sometimes called ``Higgs'' branch) is still controversial in the theoretical literature while several experimental results are available. I will explain that to distinguish clearly the collective mode contribution from the continuum, one should perform an analytic continuation of the order-parameter Green's function through the branch cut associated to the continuum. |
Czas | Środa, 29 kwiecień 2020, godz. 12:30 CEST Seminarium odbyło się! |
Prelegent | Hadrien Kurkjian (University of Antwerp) |
Język Seminarium | Angielski |
Organizatorzy | Maciej Bilicki; Adam Sawicki; Krzysztof Pawłowski; Julius Serbenta; |