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Multilayered density profile for noninteracting fermions in a rotating two-dimensional trap

Statistical Mechanics 2021-12-28 v2 Quantum Gases Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We compute exactly the average spatial density for NN spinless noninteracting fermions in a 2d2d harmonic trap rotating with a constant frequency Ω\Omega in the presence of an additional repulsive central potential γ/r2\gamma/r^2. We find that, in the large NN limit, the bulk density has a rich and nontrivial profile -- with a hole at the center of the trap and surrounded by a multi-layered "wedding cake" structure. The number of layers depends on NN and on the two parameters Ω\Omega and γ\gamma leading to a rich phase diagram. Zooming in on the edge of the kthk^{\rm th} layer, we find that the edge density profile exhibits kk kinks located at the zeroes of the kthk^{\rm th} Hermite polynomial. Interestingly, in the large kk limit, we show that the edge density profile approaches a limiting form, which resembles the shape of a propagating front, found in the unitary evolution of certain quantum spin chains. We also study how a newly formed droplet grows in size on top of the last layer as one changes the parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2009.07251,
  title  = {Multilayered density profile for noninteracting fermions in a rotating two-dimensional trap},
  author = {Manas Kulkarni and Satya N. Majumdar and Gregory Schehr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.07251},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

17 pages, 10 figures. Published version, with typos corrected

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