Symmetry breaking and quantum correlations in finite systems: studies of quantum dots and ultracold Bose gases and related nuclear and chemical methods

C Yannouleas, U Landman - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Investigations of emergent symmetry breaking phenomena occurring in small finite-size
systems are reviewed, with a focus on the strongly correlated regime of electrons in two …

Formation and control of electron molecules in artificial atoms: Impurity and magnetic-field effects

C Yannouleas, U Landman - Physical Review B, 2000 - APS
Interelectron interactions and correlations in quantum dots can lead to spontaneous
symmetry breaking of the self-consistent mean field, resulting in the formation of Wigner …

Quenching small quantum gases: Genesis of the orthogonality catastrophe

S Campbell, MÁ García-March, T Fogarty, T Busch - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We study the dynamics of two strongly interacting bosons with an additional impurity atom
trapped in a harmonic potential. Using exact numerical diagonalization we are able to fully …

Many-body spectrum and particle localization in quantum dots and finite rotating bose condensates

M Manninen, S Viefers, M Koskinen, SM Reimann - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
The yrast spectra (ie, the lowest states for a given total angular momentum) of quantum dots
in strong magnetic fields, are studied in terms of exact numerical diagonalization and …

Quantum gases in optical boxes

N Navon, RP Smith, Z Hadzibabic - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum atomic and molecular gases are flexible systems for studies of fundamental many-
body physics. They have traditionally been produced in harmonic electromagnetic traps and …

Bose polarons in ultracold atoms in one dimension: beyond the Fröhlich paradigm

F Grusdt, GE Astrakharchik, E Demler - New Journal of Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Mobile impurity atoms immersed in Bose–Einstein condensates provide a new platform for
exploring Bose polarons. Recent experimental advances in the field of ultracold atoms make …

Effects of symmetry breaking in finite quantum systems

JL Birman, RG Nazmitdinov, VI Yukalov - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
The review considers the peculiarities of symmetry breaking and symmetry transformations
and the related physical effects in finite quantum systems. Some types of symmetry in finite …

Droplets of trapped quantum dipolar bosons

A Macia, J Sánchez-Baena, J Boronat, F Mazzanti - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Strongly interacting systems of dipolar bosons in three dimensions confined by harmonic
traps are analyzed using the exact path integral ground-state Monte Carlo method. By …

Beyond the Gross-Pitaevskii approximation: Local density versus correlated basis approach for trapped bosons

A Fabrocini, A Polls - Physical Review A, 1999 - APS
We study the ground state of a system of Bose hard spheres trapped in an isotropic
harmonic potential to investigate the effect of the interatomic correlations and the accuracy of …

Interacting bosons in one dimension and the applicability of Luttinger-liquid theory as revealed by path-integral quantum Monte Carlo calculations

A Del Maestro, I Affleck - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
Harmonically trapped ultracold atoms and H 4 e in nanopores provide different experimental
realizations of bosons in one dimension, motivating the search for a more complete …