Demixing in mesoscopic boson-fermion clouds inside cylindrical harmonic traps: quantum phase diagram and role of temperature

Abstract

We use a semiclassical three-fluid thermodynamic model to evaluate the phenomena of spatial demixing in mesoscopic clouds of fermionic and bosonic atoms at high dilution under harmonic confinement, assuming repulsive boson-boson and boson-fermion interactions and including account of a bosonic thermal cloud at finite temperature T. The finite system size allows three different regimes for the equilibrium density profiles at T=0: a fully mixed state, a partially mixed state in which the overlap between the boson and fermion clouds is decreasing, and a fully demixed state where the two clouds have zero overlap. We propose simple analytical rules for the two cross-overs between the three regimes as functions of the physical system parameters and support these rules by extensive numerical calculations. A universal ``phase diagram'' expressed in terms of simple scaling parameters is shown to be valid for the transition to the regime of full demixing, inside which we identify several exotic configurations for the two phase-separated clouds in addition to simple ones consisting of a core of bosons enveloped by fermions and "vice versa". With increasing temperature the main role of the growing thermal cloud of bosons is to transform some exotic configurations into more symmetric ones, until demixing is ultimately lost. For very high values of boson-fermion repulsive coupling we also report demixing between the fermions and the thermally excited bosons.

11 pages, 8 figures

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