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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
Spectral properties of one-dimensional Fermi systems after an interaction quench
D M Kennes1, C Klöckner1, V Meden1
1Institut für Theorie der Statistischen Physik, RWTH Aachen University and JARA-Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, 52056 Aachen, Germany.
Abstract:
We show that the single-particle spectral properties of gapless one-dimensional Fermi systems in the Luttinger liquid state reached at intermediate times after an abrupt quench of the two-particle interaction are highly indicative of the unusual nonequilibrium nature of this state. The line shapes of the momentum-integrated and -resolved spectral functions strongly differ from their ground state as well as finite temperature equilibrium counterparts. Using an energy resolution improved version of radio-frequency spectroscopy of quasi-one-dimensional cold Fermi gases, it should be possible to experimentally identify this nonequilibrium state by its pronounced spectral signatures.
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