Biomedical subjects

M P Tosi

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PubMed2005

Realization of fully frustrated Josephson-junction arrays with cold atoms.

Fully frustrated Josephson-junction arrays (FF-JJA's) exhibit a subtle compound phase transition in which an Ising transition associated with discrete broken translational symmetry and a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition associated with quasi-long-range phase coherence occur nearly simultaneously. In this Letter we discuss a cold-atom realization of the FF-JJA system. We demonstrate that both orders can be studied by standard momentum-distribution-function measurements and present numerical results, based on a successful self-consistent spin-wave approximation, that illustrate the expected behavior of observables.

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PubMed2004

Collective modes and ballistic expansion of a fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover.

We evaluate the frequencies of collective modes and the anisotropic expansion rate of a harmonically trapped Fermi superfluid at varying coupling strengths across a Feshbach resonance driving a BCS-BEC crossover. The equations of motion for the superfluid are obtained from a microscopic mean-field expression for the compressibility and are solved within a scaling ansatz. Our results confirm nonmonotonic behavior in the crossover region and are in quantitative agreement with current measurements of the transverse breathing mode by Kinast et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150402 (2004)]] and of the axial breathing mode by Bartenstein et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 203201 (2004)]].

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PubMed2001

Superfluid and dissipative dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodic optical potential.

We create Bose-Einstein condensates of 87Rb in a static magnetic trap with a superimposed blue-detuned 1D optical lattice. By displacing the magnetic trap center we are able to control the condensate evolution. We observe a change in the frequency of the center-of-mass oscillation in the harmonic trapping potential, in analogy with an increase in effective mass. For fluid velocities greater than a local speed of sound, we observe the onset of dissipative processes up to full removal of the superfluid component. A parallel simulation study visualizes the dynamics of the Bose-Einstein condensate and accounts for the main features of the observed behavior.

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PubMed2000

Exact particle and kinetic-energy densities for one-dimensional confined gases of noninteracting fermions.

We propose a new method for the evaluation of the particle density and kinetic pressure profiles in inhomogeneous one-dimensional systems of noninteracting fermions, and apply it to harmonically confined systems of up to N = 1000 fermions. The method invokes a Green's function operator in coordinate space, which is handled by techniques originally developed for the calculation of the density of single-particle states from Green's functions in the energy domain. In contrast to the Thomas-Fermi approximation, the exact profiles show negative local pressure in the tails and a prominent shell structure which may become accessible to observation in magnetically trapped gases of fermionic alkali atoms.

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PubMed1999

Generalized Stokes-Einstein relation for liquid metals near freezing.

Deviations from a Stokes-Einstein relation between the self-diffusion coefficient D and shear viscosity eta for liquid metals near freezing are shown to correlate with a net transit parameter xi introduced recently by Wallace [Phys. Rev. E 58, 538 (1998)] in a two-parameter model of D. Brief comments are made on the single exception of In, for the seven liquid metals for which suitable experimental data are available.

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