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 behaviours, 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 behaviours 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.
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Introduction
The notion of contact strikingly captures the universality of ultracold atoms. As revealed by the Tan relations1,2,3 and their expressions in other forms4,5,6,7, regardless of the choice of microscopic parameters, a wide range of quantities in dilute systems is governed by that characterizes the probability that two particles may be separated by a short distance less than d. For instance, when d approaches zero, the two-body correlation function of two-component fermions in three dimensions follows , where is the density operator at position x for spin-up(down) particles. While the definition of contact is apparently independent of the many-body phase the system is exhibiting, there is much interest in exploring the behaviour of contact near a phase transition8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17. The success of such efforts will significantly deepen our understanding of the connection between short-ranged two-body correlations and phase transitions, which are generally believed to be disentangled from each other, since the latter is insensitive to the details of short-range physics.
Even though the contact of strongly interacting fermions remains finite in both the normal and the superfluid phase, experimental studies have provided evidence indicating that it gets enhanced near the superfluid transition temperature. However, owing to a lack of resolution, it is unclear whether contact exhibits any critical features near the transition point. On the theoretical side, it is extremely difficult to exactly calculate the contact of strongly interacting fermions near the transition temperature, and therefore certain approximations have to be made. Theoretical approaches based on different techniques lead to contradictory results10, ranging from a kink to a discontinuous jump of the contact near the transition point. Therefore, it is of fundamental importance to provide a concrete answer for the relation between contact and phase transitions.
In this work, our approach is to derive exact results on the behaviour of contact near a classical or quantum phase transition based on a fundamental thermodynamic relation that is free from any approximations. These results unambiguously show that contact must display critical behaviours near the transitions, and that the corresponding critical behaviours are uniquely determined by the universality class of the phase transition. We use a one-dimensional (1D) exactly solvable model of strongly interacting fermions exhibiting exotic quantum phase transitions to demonstrate these critical phenomena. Our exact result for contact is obtained from the Bethe ansatz for a 1D Fermi gas that provides a precise understanding of critical phenomena beyond the Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid (TLL) physics. Whereas our general results apply to all dimensions, this 1D example sheds light on the universal features of contact near a phase transition.
Results
Critical behaviours of contact in three dimensions
We consider the fundamental thermodynamic relation,
where P is the pressure, n, s, M, ρs and are the densities of the particles, the entropy, the magnetization, the superfluid and the contact, respectively, is the volume of the system, and μ, T, H and a3D are the chemical potential, temperature, magnetic field and scattering length, respectively. Compared with the usual definition of contact, here the prefactor ℏ2/(4πm) (with m denoting the mass) has been absorbed into c. In this relation, w=vs−vn is the difference between the velocity of the superfluid and normal components, which can be generated by slowly rotating the atomic cloud so that the critical velocity of the superfluid is not reached anywhere in the trap. Equation (1) has been used to measure thermodynamic quantities such as the pressure, the equation of state and density–density response function18,19,20,21,22.
Compared with the original Tan relation , where E and S are the total energy and entropy of the system, respectively, equation (1) has the advantage of allowing one to directly correlate the contact with phase transitions for both classical and quantum ones. First, as c is a partial derivative of the pressure, that is, , as are n, s M and ρs, equation (1) tells one that contact near the critical point must exhibit critical behaviour determined by the universality class of the phase transition. In particular, the contact should vary continuously across a continuous phase transition. For instance, across the superfluid phase transition of strongly interacting fermions in three dimensions, c is continuous. Second, the Maxwell relations derived from equation (1) show that the derivatives of the contact with respect to μ, T, H and w exhibit critical behaviour. These Maxwell relations can be written as
The exact relations (equations (2)–(5)) bring new physical insight into the correlations between the contact and other physical quantities, including the magnetization and superfluid density that characterizes magnetic and transport properties, respectively, which have not been explored in the literature. Among these exact relations, equation (5) is of particular interest. It directly correlates the contact with ρs characterizing superfluid phase transitions. Despite c being finite in both the normal and superfluid phases, there is a difference. Equation (5) shows that in the normal phase, , and the contact remains unchanged after a slow rotation is turned on, since ρs≡0. In the superfluid phase, ρs in general depends on the scattering length, and therefore is finite. In particular, in a stationary system with w=0, ρs follows the standard scaling law near the transition point, , where the tuning parameter δ can be T and μ (or H) for classical and quantum phase transitions, respectively. Here, A is independent of δ, and ζ is the corresponding critical exponent. One then obtains the scaling law for near the transition point,
Equation (6) shows that the exponent of is entirely determined by the universality class of the superfluid phase transition. The above properties of the contact can be easily tested in experiments on trapped atoms, where the superfluid and normal phases are distributed in different regions of the trap. With the high-resolution images available in current experiments, the local contact density c can be extracted as a function of μ using . One then could examine the distinct responses of c to rotation, , in both the superfluid and normal phases.
Equations (2)–(4) can also be experimentally tested. Near the phase transition point, the scaling law in a system with w=0 for a quantity O takes the form , where O=n, M or s, Or is the regular part of O and ηO is the corresponding critical exponent. One then obtains:
where the subscripts on the derivatives of Or have been suppressed. The above differential forms also indicate scaling laws for c. For instance, if one chooses δ=μ, then from equation (7) one obtains , where . Note that the dependences of c and n on μ have the same exponent, so that one concludes that
In particular, if cr=nr=0, one sees that the contact per particle in the critical region becomes a constant that is entirely determined by . As the non-uniform distribution of trapped atoms allows experimentalists to trace the dependence of the contact on the chemical potential18, equations (7) and (10) can be directly tested in experiments.
Contact in an exactly solvable 1D Fermi gas
Whereas the above discussion applies to all ultracold atomic systems, it is particularly interesting to use an exactly solvable model to demonstrate some of the critical behaviour of contact. Here, we consider equations (7) and (10), since they can be implemented in experiments easily without a rotation. In one dimension, equation (1) becomes
where a1D is the 1D scattering length and c differs from the ordinary definition by a trivial prefactor ℏ2/(2m). Each of the equations (1)–(10) has a direct analogue in one dimension that is obtained by the simple replacement . We study a 1D Fermi gas with δ-function interactions, described by the Yang–Gaudin Hamiltonian23,24,25
where is the Zeeman energy induced by a magnetic field H, characterizes the interaction strength determined by the effective 1D scattering length 26, a⊥ is the transverse oscillation length and A≈1.0326. We introduce the polarization P=(n↑−n↓)/n, and define a dimensionless interaction parameter γ=mg1D/(nħ2)=−2(na1D)−1 for our analysis, choosing natural units 2m=ℏ=kB=1.
The model described by equation (12) has been solved using the Bethe ansatz23,24 and has had a tremendous impact in statistical mechanics. The experimental developments in studying 1D fermions27,28,29,30,31 have inspired significant interest in relating theoretical results to experimental observables25,32. It was found33,34,35 that although the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) equations involve non-trivial collective behaviour of the particles, that is, the motion of one particle depends on all others, the total effect of the complex behaviours of all the individual particles leads to qualitatively new forms of simplicity in many-body phenomena36,37.
Contact of the ground state, in the extremely polarized limit with a single spin-down atom, has been studied in refs 38, 39. However, reaching the goal of finding critical behaviours of contact requires a theoretical framework, beyond mean-field theory, capable of analytically deriving the thermodynamic properties of such gases at finite temperatures (Supplementary Note 1). This has been a fundamental challenge in theoretical physics owing to the strong interaction between the atoms. Here we compute the contact by numerically solving the TBA equations and obtaining analytic expressions in the physical regime and , where is the binding energy of the pairs, and explore its behaviour near the phase transition. Even though there is no finite-temperature phase transition in one dimension, there does exist a universal finite-temperature crossover that remarkably separates the low-energy critical TLL with relativistic dispersion from the collective matter of free Fermi criticality with non-relativistic dispersion. Moreover, quantum phase transitions between two of the following phases in this model, the vacuum phase (V), the fully paired phase (P), the fully polarized phase (F) and the partially polarized phase (PP)36,37, provide a precise description of the critical behaviours exhibited by contact in many-body systems.
The phase diagram Fig. 1 shows numerical results for the dimensionless contact density at zero temperature as a function of the dimensionless chemical potential and magnetic field h≡H/εb, where c is obtained from the TBA equations (Supplementary Note 1) through c=−(∂P/∂a1D)μ,H,T, and w has been set to be zero. Here we have chosen εb as the energy scale. Alternatively, one may choose the Fermi energy, EF, which will not change the later discussion and results. Since we have chosen natural units by setting ℏ and 2m to be 1, c has the same dimension as so that as defined is dimensionless. Across the transition from V to P, the regular part , since in V, and past the critical point continuously increases from zero as . Correspondingly, in P, diverges as at this transition point. The aforementioned scaling laws for and are derived directly from the zero temperature scaling law for density near this critical point, . By taking the derivative of n with respect to a1D, one sees that the critical exponents for and are indeed 1/2 and −1/2, respectively. Near the other transition point from P to PP, c also changes continuously with a kink and has the same divergence.
At finite temperatures, no longer diverges (Supplementary Fig. 1). Nevertheless, critical phenomena exist for both and in a region expanded to finite temperatures, as is typical for quantum criticality. We work out the analytic expressions for and derive the scaling form for and its derivatives in the quantum critical region. For the physical regime, and , is given explicitly by
where
Here, we use the notation , , , and is the polylog function. We have defined t≡T/εb, , and , where the labels b and u indicate if a quantity describes a property of bound states or unpaired particles. The result (equation (13)) is valid for both the TLL phase and the critical region (Supplementary Fig. 2). Physically, and represent the dimensionless pressure and chemical potential of unpaired fermions and bound pairs, respectively. Owing to the residual interaction between them, and are correlated through the above coupled equations.
It is interesting to note that, apart from a small correction , the terms within the square brackets of (equation (13)) give the pressure of the interacting system after subtracting that of an ideal gas consisting of single fermionic atoms with mass m and composite atoms with mass 2m, namely
where up to the order of , the pressure is . In these equations, and , with and (Supplementary Note 1). Physically, represents the pressures of free unpaired fermions or bound pairs, as one sees clearly that their expressions are identical to those for non-interacting particles. The term in the parentheses of equation (14) reveals an important characteristic of contact in the strongly interacting region: it accounts for the interaction between bound pairs, and that between pairs and unpaired fermions, in addition to the contribution from each pair itself. The high-order corrections to contact from multibody interaction effects, that is, scattering involving three pairs, are relatively small in the strong-coupling regime. In this regard, the two-body interaction, including both pair–pair and pair–unparied fermions scattering, are important for determining the critical behaviours of contact in a strongly interacting Fermi gas. On the other hand, in order to capture proper thermal and quantum fluctuations in the quantum critical region, the universal scaling behaviour of the contact requests such marginal contributions from those higher order corrections (Supplementary Note 1).
Using equation (13), we find the universal scaling form of c in the quantum critical region,
where cr is a temperature-independent regular part, the constant λG depends on μc, and is a dimensionless scaling function that can be determined by the TBA equations (Supplementary Note 1). The dynamic and correlation length exponents have been found to be z=2 and ν=1/2, see the data collapse after use of scaling law (equation (15)) in Fig. 2. From equation (15), we obtain:
Figure 3 shows the scaling behaviour of this derivative of contact. Similar results can be obtained if one chooses H as the tuning parameter (Supplementary Figs 3 and 4). Comparing equation (15) with the standard scaling form of the density in the quantum critical region, , we find that and
in analogy to equation (10) in three dimensions. For the phase transition V–P, and , so that equation (17) can be rewritten as . For other phase transitions, such as P–PP and F–PP, this ratio has different constant values. The scaling forms, equations (15) and (16), lead to the intersection of the scaled quantities and for different temperatures at μc in our system. If one further plots these quantities as functions of (μ−μc)/T, different curves collapse to a single one. Such intersections and data collapses are characteristic for the quantum critical behaviour of contact. We have numerically confirmed the validity of these scaling forms for all interaction strengths.
We now turn to the contact per particle in the quantum critical region. To highlight the quantum critical region and other ones in the plane, Fig. 4 shows a density plot of the entropy. The regions are separated by a crossover temperature T*, shown by the white dashed line in Fig. 4. The crossover from the quantum critical region to the TLL region, where the density is finite for at zero temperature, is obtained from the deviation of the entropy from the linear form of TLL25. On the other side of the transition point, the crossover temperature from the quantum critical region to the semiclassical region, where the density is exponentially small, is obtained by setting the thermal wavelength equal to the interparticle spacing. In Fig. 4a, three curves are shown for the rather small fixed values of the density listed in Fig. 4b. One can see that a very large portion of the trajectory at such constant densities remains in the quantum critical region. As a result, becomes 1. In Fig. 4b, numerical results for the scaled contact per particle for these three densities are shown to satisfy up to the temperature scale t=10−2, which corresponds to a ratio of the temperature to the chemical potential . These results directly confirm equation (17).
At higher densities and with increasing temperature, the trajectory at constant density first enters the TLL region, quickly passes the quantum critical region and eventually enters the high temperature region with , where the entropy density becomes large and the universal scaling laws of contact fail, as shown in Fig. 4a. Below T*, and in the TLL phase of the paired fermions, referred to as phase TLLp, the contact in the strong-coupling regime is given by
Figure 4c shows both the numerical results of at large densities and the result of the TLL theory based on equation (18). It is clear that the growth of at low temperatures is described well by equation (18). The deviation from the TLL result shows a breakdown of the TLL at crossover temperature T*. More interestingly, one sees that before eventually decreases at high temperatures, a maximum occurs around t≈0.01 (about 0.1–0.5 TF for strong attractive regime28), which corresponds to a quantum degenerate temperature . Such a maximum indicates that the contact per particle gets enlarged in the quantum degenerate region, similar to the possible enhancement of the contact near the transition temperature of three-dimensional (3D) fermions10.
Discussion
Whereas the Tan relations have revealed how contact controls various thermodynamic quantities, it is in general difficult to make quantitative predictions as to how contact depends on the many-body physics of the system. Our results have shown that in the critical region near a phase transition point, contact and its derivatives are uniquely determined by the universality class of the phase transition. The exact thermodynamic relations shown in equations (1)–(5) lead to both new insights into fundamental physics and profound applications for connecting contact and macroscopic quantum phenomena. Whereas these relations are exact for any microscopic parameters, they are particularly useful in the critical region for establishing exact relations between the universal scaling behaviours of contact and those of other thermal, magnetic and transport quantities. In particular, we have proved that contact in one dimension not only provides an unambiguous determination of the TLL phases and but also identifies in a novel fashion the universality class of quantum critical interacting many-body systems.
Moreover, equations (1)–(5) can be used to ultimately settle the aforementioned controversy over the contact of the 3D unitary Fermi gas near the superfluid phase transition point. On the experimental side, our results suggest that high-resolution in situ images may be used to obtain precision measurements of the local pressure and contact as a function of temperature and other microscopic parameters, so that an average in the trap is not necessary. Such experiments will also be useful for exploring the size of the critical region, which is predicted to be of the order unity in the unitary limit40. On the theoretical side, whereas a number of approaches have obtained a continuous contact across the transition point, consistent with the prediction of our exact thermodynamic relations, one needs to examine whether the results produced by a theory indeed satisfy the exact thermodynamic relations in equations (1)–(5).
In this Article, we have focused on continuous phase transitions, where all physical quantities, including both superfluid density and contact, are continuous across the transition point. It is worth pointing out that a unique phase transition occurs in two-dimensional (2D) superfluids, where the superfluid density has a finite jump, and meanwhile other thermodynamic quantities remain continuous, at the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition point. It would be interesting to explore whether contact could signify such a finite jump of superfluid density controlled by the deconfinement of topological excitations, that is, vortices in 2D superfluids.
Highly controllable ultracold atoms are ideal platforms for exploring both universality of dilute systems governed by contact and universal critical phenomena near a phase transition point in many-body systems. In particular, current experiments with ultracold atoms are capable of measuring the critical behaviours of contact in all dimensions. We hope that our work will stimulate more studies on the intrinsic connection between these two types of fundamental phenomena on universality in physics.
Methods
The model
For the attractive spin-1/2 Fermi gas at finite temperatures, the thermodynamics of the homogeneous system is described by two coupled Fermi gases of bound pairs and excess fermions in the charge sector and ferromagnetic spin–spin interaction in the spin sector, namely the TBA equations read35
with m=1,…∞. In the above equations, * denotes the convolution integral, and . Here εb,u,m are the dressed energies for bound pairs, excess single fermions and m-strings of spin wave-bound states, respectively. These dressed energies account for excitation energies above Fermi surfaces. In the above equations the function is given by Tnm (k)=Anm (k)−δnm δ(k) with Anm=a|n−m|+2a(|n−m|+2)+⋯+2a(n+m−2)+a(n+m); see ref. 35.
The effective chemical potentials of unpaired fermions and pairs were defined by μu=μ+H/2 and μb=μ+εb/2. The thermal potential per unit length P=pu+pb is given in terms of the effective pressures with r=1 and 2 for the unpaired fermions and bound pairs.
The strategy for working out scaling form of contact near the critical points is to, at first, perform analytical calculation of contact near different phase transition points in the physical regime and . Then we confirm the analytical result of the universal scaling forms by numerically solving the TBA equations of the model for all interacting strengths. To this end, we first present the analytical expression of the total pressure P=pb+pu for the regime and (ref. 37).
with the functions
In this model, the SU(2) spin degree of freedom ferromagnetically couples to the unpaired Fermi sea. Thus, the spin wave contributions to the function Au is negligible owing to an exponentially small contributions at low temperatures37. By iteration, these effective pressures of bound pairs and unpaired fermions pb,u can be presented in close forms. Here a significant observation from equations (20) and (21) is that the pressure P can be written in term of a universal scaling form near the critical fields, that is,
where the dimensionless pressure , 0 is the background pressure and is the dimensionless scaling function. The dimensionless critical chemical potential and critical field hc=Hc/εb depend on the interaction strength g1D. Therefore, contact would essentially possesses universal scaling form near each critical point.
Numerical method
In principle, the TBA equation (19) in the paper present full thermodynamical properties of the model for all temperature regimes and interaction strength. Analytical result obtained above are useful for carrying out full thermodynamics of the model throughout all interaction regimes. In the present paper, the numerical calculations have been performed basing on the TBA equations of the spin-1/2 Fermi gas with attractive interaction (equation (19)). The TBA (equation (19)) involve infinite number of nonlinear integral equations accounting different lengths of spin strings (spin wave-bound states). This renders one to access the thermodynamics of the model analytically and numerically. The key observation is that for very large n, the function an (x)→0. For the string number n is greater than a critical cutoff value of the nc-length spin strings, the value is independent of the interaction. Consequently, the contributions to the εu from higher spin strings, that is, n >nc, can be calculated analytically. By iteration, one finds that the value of εn for n >nc is the same as the solution of the TBA (equation (26)) with g1D→∞; see ref. 35
In our numerical programme, we fixed the value of nc until the iteration error is small enough. In order to make a proper discretization in the variable space k, we need to find a cutoff kc for the dressed energies εn(k) in spin sector. For |k|→∞, we see εn(k)→εn,∞, which is given in equation (25), while for the charge sector εu,∞=εb,∞=∞. Therefore, for |k|>kc, we use this constant dressed energy εn,∞ for numerical calculation. There exists an error in comparison with the real-dressed energies that is not flat in this region |k|>kc. In our programme, we also fix the value kc until the iteration error is negilible.
For an arbitrary interaction strength, we are able to truncate infinite number of strings TBA equations to finite number of TBA equations in terms of the variables εb,u=T ln ξb,u and εn=T lnηn
…
Here the functions . From the parameters ξb(k) and ξu(k), we can get the pressures pb,u. This new set of the TBA equations provide numerical access to the full thermodynamics of the model, including the TLL physics, quantum criticality, thermodynamics and zero temperature phase diagram.
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X.-W.G. thanks R. Hulet, J.H.H. Perk, D. Ridout and H.-W. Xiong for their helpful discussions. This work has been supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under grant no. 2012CB922101 and National Nature Science Foundation of China under grant numbers 11374331 and 11304357. The work of X.-W.G. has been partially supported by the Australian Research Council. X.-W.G. thanks Chinese University of Hong Kong for kind hospitality. Q.Z. is supported by NSFC-RGC(N-CUHK453/13) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong direct grant (4053083).
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