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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Reply to "Comment on 'Kinetic theory for a mobile impurity in a degenerate Tonks-Girardeau gas' "
O Gamayun1,2,3, O Lychkovskiy4, V Cheianov1,3
1Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.
Abstract:
In our recent paper [O. Gamayun, O. Lychkovskiy, and V. Cheianov, Phys. Rev. E 90, 032132 (2014)] we studied the dynamics of a mobile impurity particle weakly interacting with the Tonks-Girardeau gas and pulled by a small external force F. Working in the regime when the thermodynamic limit is taken prior to the small force limit, we found that the Bloch oscillations of the impurity velocity are absent in the case of a light impurity. Further, we argued that for a light impurity the steady-state drift velocity V(D) remains finite in the limit F→0. These results are in contradiction with earlier works by Gangardt and co-workers [D. M. Gangardt and A. Kamenev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070402 (2009); M. Schecter, D. M. Gangardt, and A. Kamenev, Ann. Phys. (NY) 327, 639 (2012)]. One of us has conjectured [O. Lychkovskiy, Phys. Rev. A 91, 040101 (2015)] that the central assumption of these works, the adiabaticity of the dynamics, can break down in the thermodynamic limit. In the preceding Comment [M. Schecter, D. M. Gangardt, and A. Kamenev, Phys. Rev. E 92, 016101 (2015)], Schecter et al. have argued against this conjecture and in support of the existence of Bloch oscillations and the linearity of V(D)(F). They have suggested that the ground state of the impurity-fluid system is a quasibound state and that this is sufficient to ensure adiabaticity in the thermodynamic limit. Their analytical argument is based on a certain truncation of the Hilbert space of the system. We argue that extending the results and intuition based on their truncated model on the original many-body problem lacks justification.
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