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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
Time-dependent current-density-functional theory of spin-charge separation and spin drag in one-dimensional ultracold
Gao Xianlong1, Marco Polini, Diego Rainis
1Department of Physics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, 321004, China.
Abstract:
Motivated by the large interest in the nonequilibrium dynamics of low-dimensional quantum many-body systems, we present a fully microscopic theoretical and numerical study of the charge and spin dynamics in a one-dimensional ultracold Fermi gas following a quench. Our approach, which is based on time-dependent current-density-functional theory, is applicable well beyond the linear-response regime and produces both spin-charge separation and spin-drag-induced broadening of the spin packets.
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