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The fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas: composite boson formation and a novel formulation of the ground state wave function
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Attractive p-wave one-dimensional fermions are studied in the fermionic Tonks-Girardeau regime, in which the diagonal properties are shared with those of an ideal Bose gas. We study the off-diagonal properties and present analytical expressions for the eigenvalues of the one-body density matrix. We show that the occupation of natural orbitals occurs in pairs, indicating the formation of composite bosons, each consisting of two attractive fermions. The formation of composite bosons sheds light on the pairing mechanism of the system orbitals, yielding a total density equal to that of an ideal Bose gas. Furthermore, we introduce an alternative expression for the ground state wave function of the fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas. Our wave function is constructed based on the occupation numbers and natural orbitals of the one-body density matrix.
We demonstrate that the newly found wave function describes the ground state of the fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas under any external potential. By expressing the proposed wave function in the framework of second quantization, we show that the ground state of the fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas is a number-conserving Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) state. We provide explicit expressions for the corresponding coefficients that describe the fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas as a number-conserving BCS state. Additionally, the suitable form of the proposed wave function in second quantization allows us to derive the necessary expectation values to experimentally detect pairing in the fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas. With this, we prove and show how to detect that the fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas not only exhibits non-trivial quantum
correlations, but is also a paired state.
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Màster Oficial de Ciència i Tecnologia Quàntiques / Quantum Science and Technology, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2023-2024. Tutors: Bruno Juliá-Díaz, Grigori E. Astrakharchik
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SABATER GARCÍA, Francesc. The fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas: composite boson formation and a novel formulation of the ground state wave function. [consulted: 17 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/215247