In this thesis we study the physics of quantum many-body systems confined to one-dimensional geometries. The work was motivated by the recent success of experimentalists in developing atom traps, capable of restricting the motion of the individual atoms to a single spatial dimension. Specifically, we look at aspects of the one-dimensional Bose gas including; excitation spectrum, correlation functions, and dynamical behaviour. In Chapter \ref{ch:excitation1D} we consider the Lieb-Liniger model of interacting bosons in one-dimension. We numerically solve the equations arising from the Bethe ansatz solution for the exact many-body wave function in a finite-size system of up to twenty particles for attractive interactions. We discuss novel features of the solutions, including deviations from the well-known string solutions due to finite size effects. We present excited state string solutions in the limit of strong interactions and discuss their physical interpretation, as well as the characteristics of the quantum phase transition that occurs as a function of interaction strength in the mean-field limit. Our results are compared to those obtained via exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian in a truncated basis. In Chapter \ref{ch:g2} we analytically calculate the spatial nonlocal pair correlation function for an interacting uniform one dimensional Bose gas at finite temperature and propose an experimental method to measure nonlocal correlations. Our results span six different physical realms, including the weakly and strongly interacting regimes. We show explicitly that the characteristic correlation lengths are given by one of four length scales: the thermal de Broglie wavelength, the mean interparticle separation, the healing length, or the phase coherence length. In all regimes, we identify the profound role of interactions and find that under certain conditions the pair correlation may develop a global maximum at a finite interparticle separation due to the competition between repulsive interactions and thermal effects. In Chapter \ref{ch:casimirdrag} we study the drag force below the critical velocity for obstacles moving in a superfluid. The absence of drag is well established in the context of the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii theory. We calculate the next order correction due to quantum and thermal fluctuations and find a non-zero force acting on a delta-function impurity moving through a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate at all subcritical velocities and at all temperatures. The force occurs due to an imbalance in the Doppler shifts of reflected quantum fluctuations from either side of the impurity. Our calculation is based on a consistent extension of Bogoliubov theory to second order in the interaction strength, and finds new analytic solutions to the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations for a gray soliton. In Chapter \ref{ch:solitons} we study the effect of quantum noise on the stability of a soliton. We find the soliton solutions exactly define the reflectionless potentials of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. This results in complete stability of the solitons in a purely one dimensional system. We look at the modifications to the density profile of a black soliton due to quantum fluctuations.

In this thesis we study the physics of quantum many-body systems confined to one-dimensional geometries. The work was motivated by the recent success of experimentalists in developing atom traps, capable of restricting the motion of the individual atoms to a single spatial dimension. Specifically, we look at aspects of the one-dimensional Bose gas including; excitation spectrum, correlation functions, and dynamical behaviour. In Chapter \ref{ch:excitation1D} we consider the Lieb-Liniger model of interacting bosons in one-dimension. We numerically solve the equations arising from the Bethe ansatz solution for the exact many-body wave function in a finite-size system of up to twenty particles for attractive interactions. We discuss novel features of the solutions, including deviations from the well-known string solutions due to finite size effects. We present excited state string solutions in the limit of strong interactions and discuss their physical interpretation, as well as the characteristics of the quantum phase transition that occurs as a function of interaction strength in the mean-field limit. Our results are compared to those obtained via exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian in a truncated basis. In Chapter \ref{ch:g2} we analytically calculate the spatial nonlocal pair correlation function for an interacting uniform one dimensional Bose gas at finite temperature and propose an experimental method to measure nonlocal correlations. Our results span six different physical realms, including the weakly and strongly interacting regimes. We show explicitly that the characteristic correlation lengths are given by one of four length scales: the thermal de Broglie wavelength, the mean interparticle separation, the healing length, or the phase coherence length. In all regimes, we identify the profound role of interactions and find that under certain conditions the pair correlation may develop a global maximum at a finite interparticle separation due to the competition between repulsive interactions and thermal effects. In Chapter \ref{ch:casimirdrag} we study the drag force below the critical velocity for obstacles moving in a superfluid. The absence of drag is well established in the context of the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii theory. We calculate the next order correction due to quantum and thermal fluctuations and find a non-zero force acting on a delta-function impurity moving through a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate at all subcritical velocities and at all temperatures. The force occurs due to an imbalance in the Doppler shifts of reflected quantum fluctuations from either side of the impurity. Our calculation is based on a consistent extension of Bogoliubov theory to second order in the interaction strength, and finds new analytic solutions to the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations for a gray soliton. In Chapter \ref{ch:solitons} we study the effect of quantum noise on the stability of a soliton. We find the soliton solutions exactly define the reflectionless potentials of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. This results in complete stability of the solitons in a purely one dimensional system. We look at the modifications to the density profile of a black soliton due to quantum fluctuations.

Time-varying fields are widely used to extend the accessible range of trapping potentials for ultracold atoms. This work explores two very different examples of such fields, in the radiofrequency and optical regimes, whose interactions with trapped atoms can both be described in terms of the dressed atom picture. Forming the basis of this work are radiofrequency dressed adiabatic potentials based on macroscopic trapping coils. Atoms are confined at the south pole of the resultant oblate spheroidal trapping surfaces. This work describes the extension of these potentials by two different methods: the application of multiple dressing radiofrequencies, and addition of a rapidly-scanned optical dipole trap. This is the first experimental demonstration of a multiple-radiofrequency dressed adiabatic potential, explored using ultracold ⁸⁷Rb atoms confined in a highly configurable double well. Due to the independent generation of each constituent dressing frequency, the depth of each trapping well and the height of the barrier are easily manipulated, enabling precise and reliable transfer of atoms between the available trapping geometries. Experimental work includes an exploration of the potential-shaping capabilities of the three-radiofrequency system, and characterisation of the potential landscape using radiofrequency spectroscopy with good agreement to the eigenvalues numerically calculated using Floquet theory. This initial exploration of multiple-radiofrequency techniques lays the groundwork for applications in studying double well physics in a two-dimensional system, and independent state or species selective manipulation of trapped atoms. The potential shaping capabilities of this method can also be extended by applying additional trapping frequencies. In a supplementary line of experimental work, an optical dipole trapping system has been constructed, and the trapping beam aligned to the lower surface of the radiofrequency dressed trapping shell in order to sculpt the radial confinement. Beam shaping is achieved using an acousto-optic deflector, which can be used to produce either a composite array of static deflected beams, a rapidly-scanned painted potential, or some combination of the two approaches. The development and extension of the experimental apparatus required to implement these enhanced dressed state potentials is explored, and the challenges of their experimental implementation considered.

In this work we study inhomogeneous cosmological models. After a brief review of applications of inhomogeneous solutions to Einstein equations in cosmology, we give a short description of the most widely used inhomogeneous cosmological models. In the second chapter we study in detail geometrical prop- erties of the Szekeres spacetime and we are concerned with the interpretation of the metric functions in different types of geometries. In the last chapter we model inhomogeneity in Szekeres spacetime. We derive formula for the density contrast and investigate its behaviour. We also derive conditions for the density extremes that are necessary for avoiding the shell crossing singularity in Szekeres spacetime. 1

Dans cette thèse nous étudions deux problèmes issus de la relativité générale : la construction de données initiales pour le problème de Cauchy des équations d’Einstein et le théorème de la masse positive. Nous construisons tout d’abord des données initiales en utilisant la méthode dite conforme introduite par Lichnerowicz [Lichnerowicz, 1944], Y. Choquet-Bruhat–J. York [Choquet-Bruhat et York, 1980] et Y. Choquet-Bruhat–J. Isenberg– D. Pollack [Choquet-Bruhat et al., 2007a]. Plus particulièrement, nous étudions les équations –de contrainte conforme– qui apparaissent dans cette méthode sur des variétés riemanniennes compactes de dimension n > 3. Dans cette thèse, nous donnons une preuve simplifiée du résultat de [Dahl et al., 2012], puis nous étendons et nous généralisons les théorèmes de M. Holst–G. Nagy–G. Tsogtgerel [Holst et al., 2009] et de D. Maxwell [Maxwell, 2009] dans le cas de données initiales à courbure moyenne fortement nonconstante. Nous donnons au passage un point de vue unifié sur ces résultats. En parallèle, nous donnons des résultats de non-existence et de non-unicité pour les équations de la méthode conforme sous certaines hypothèses. / The aim of this thesis is the study of two topical issues arising from general relativity: finding initial data for the Cauchy problem with respect to the Einstein equations and the positive mass theorem. For the first issue, in the context of the conformal method introduced by Lichnerowicz [Lichnerowicz, 1944], Y. Choquet-Bruhat–J. York [Choquet-Bruhat et York, 1980] and Y. Choquet-Bruhat–J. Isenberg–D. Pollack [Choquet-Bruhat et al., 2007a], we consider the conformal constraint equations on compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension n > 3. In this thesis, we simplify the proof of [Dahl et al., 2012, Theorem 1.1], extend and sharpen the far-from CMC result proven by Holst– Nagy–Tsogtgerel [Holst et al., 2009], Maxwell [Maxwell, 2009] and give an unifying viewpoint of these results. Besides discussing the solvability of the conformal constraint equations, we will also show nonexistence and nonuniqueness results for solutions to the conformal constraint equations under certain assumptions.

La lecture du « Discours Nobel » où Saint-John Perse précise que, chez le savant aussi bien que chez le poète, « l’interrogation est la même qu’ils tiennent sur un même abîme, et seuls leurs modes d’investigation diffèrent », nous a incité à approfondir l’analyse des influences des savoirs scientifiques sur la poésie de Saint-John Perse, mais aussi de la philosophie de Henri Bergson, d’autant plus que, plus loin, l’écrivain fait directement allusion à Einstein et à la physique quantique. Fernand Hallyn souligne dans son ouvrage La structure poétique du monde : Copernic, Kepler qu’« [u]ne poétique s’occupera de la formation d’une hypothèse en tant que phénomène global, débordant largement les cadres constitués et s’organisant d’une manière propre : résultat, certes, de déterminations et de conditionnements logiques et autres, mais également configuration unique, synthèse originale qui, en tant que totalité, demande une étude sui generis de la structuration et de l’interaction des éléments qui l’encadrent et l’informent ». Dans Les structures rhétoriques de la science de Kepler à Maxwell, il ajoute que « [l]a poétique n’est pas à exclure totalement de la science : celle-ci possède, au contraire, une poétique propre, pourvue de règles et de valeurs spécifiques ». Autrement dit, il y a interaction entre la vérité poétique et la vérité scientifique, les « modes d’investigation » (Saint-John Perse) des deux étant différents, mais l’objet de la quête restant le même. Nous avons donc analysé comment les influences du bergsonisme, mais aussi les savoirs scientifiques viennent nourrir l’œuvre de Saint-John Perse, celle-ci se réclamant d’une ouverture cosmique / In his “Nobel Speech”, Saint-John Perse specifies that, for the scientist as well as the poet, “the questioning is the same on the same abyss, with only their investigative modes differing”. This statement prompted a more thorough analysis of the influence on Saint-John Perse’s poetry of both scientific knowledge and Henri Bergson’s philosophy, especially as the writer, further in his text, explicitly refers to Einstein and quantum physics. In his La structure poétique du monde : Copernic, Kepler, Fernand Hallyn emphasizes that ”poetics attend to the genesis of a hypothesis as a global phenomenon, which goes far beyond any established framework and develops along its own scheme - the result, undoubtedly, of logical and other determination and conditioning, but also a unique configuration, an original synthesis which, as a whole, requires a sui generis study of its structuring and the interaction of the elements framing and informing it”. In Les structures rhétoriques de la science de Kepler à Maxwell, he adds that “poetics must not totally be excluded from science: rather, the latter is endowed with its own poetics following specific rules and values.” In other words, there is interaction between poetic truth and scientific truth, with the “investigative modes” (Saint-John Perse) of the two differing, yet the object of the quest remaining the same. Hence arose the analysis of how the influences of Bergsonism, along with scientific knowledge, nourish the works of Saint-John Perse, which claim a cosmic perspective

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:16:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 1661.pdf: 2213474 bytes, checksum: 80beeb60d2c70b17d119a61fbf3e9210 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-13 / Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos / In this work we consider an of - resonant interaction between optical fields and a Bose - Einstein condensation. We used a continuous photo detection model to study the efects of the counting of k photons of the optical field upon the properties of the atoms in the condensate. We have obtained the density operator of the interacting system conditioned to count k photons and one relation between the moments of the distribution of photons and the moments of the distribution of atoms. We analyze the efects of the photo counting in two specific cases: in the first case, we analyze the efects of the photo counting upon the state of a pure condensate at zero temperature and in the second case, upon the tunneling dynamics of a pure condensate at zero temperature confined in an double well potential like. / Neste trabalho consideramos a interação não ressonante entre campos ópticos e condensados de Bose-Einstein. Utilizamos um modelo de fotodetecção contínua para estudar os efeitos da contagem de k fótons do campo óptico sobre as propriedades dos átomos do condensado. Obtivemos o operador densidade do sistema interagente condicionado a contagem de k fótons e uma relação entre os momentos da distribuição de fótons e os momentos da distribuição de átomos. Analisamos os efeitos da fotocontagem sobre os átomos em dois casos específicos: no primeiro caso, analisamos os efeitos da fotocontagem sobre o estado de um condensado puro a temperatura zero e no segundo caso, sobre a dinâmica de tunelamento de um condensado puro a temperatura zero confinado num duplo poço de potencial.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:16:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissVVF.pdf: 1319108 bytes, checksum: 12713663115477f3e46216f4931e1917 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-03-10 / In this work we consider a trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate interacting simultaneously with a high quality cavity quantized field and a classical undepleted laser field. Collisions between atoms are taken into account by a delta type contact potential. A linearized model is obtained which take into account simultaneous amplification of atomic and optical fields. We analyse the effects of atomic collisions on the system stability and statistical properties. Also is done a study of the degree of entanglement between atomic and optical fields. / Neste trabalho nós consideramos um Condensado de Bose-Einstein em uma armadilha interagindo simultaneamente com o campo quantizado de uma cavidade de alto fator de qualidade e com o campo de um laser tratado classicamente e suposto de intensidade fixa. Colisões entre átomos são incluídas por meio de um potencial de contato tipo delta. É obtido um modelo linearizado que inclui amplificação simultânea dos campos óptico e atômico. Nós analisamos os efeitos das colisões atômicas sobre a estabilidade e as propriedades estatísticas do sistema. Também é realizado um estudo do grau de emaranhamento entre os campos óptico e atômico.

Um potencial de dois corpos do tipo delta-Dirac foi utilizado para descrever sistemas fracamente ligados de três corpos. A trajetória completa dos estados Efimov em função da energia ligação de dois corpos foi calculada para o caso de três bosons idênticos: se o subsistema de dois corpos é ligado, conforme a razão entre a energia de ligação de dois e três corpos aumenta, o estado excitado desaparece e um estado virtual correspondente aparece quando a energia do estado fundamental atinge o limiar dado por 6.9hbar^2/(ma^2) (a - comprimento de espalhamento, m - massa do bóson). Quando o subsistema de dois corpos é virtual, o aumento da razão entre as energias faz com que o estado excitado se transforme em uma ressonância quando a energia do estado fundamental é 1.1hbar^2/(ma^2). Neste último caso as condições para a formação de moléculas triatômicas no interior de condensados é favorecida, pois a competição com dímeros fracamente ligados está ausente. A energia de ligação de trímeros com momento angular total nulo em condensados atômicos foi estimada através da correlação desta com o coeficiente de recombinação e com a energia do dímero, ambos conhecidos experimentalmente em alguns casos. Os tamanhos de moléculas fracamente ligadas (^4He_2$-X; Xequiv^4He, ^6Li, ^7Li e ^{23}Na) e de núcleos exóticos leves (^6He, ^{11}Li, ^{14}Be e ^{20}C) também foram calculados juntamente com um estudo sistemático do comportamento dos raios quadráticos médios conforme a interação dos subsistemas de dois corpos é variada. Neste último caso a classificação de um sistema de três corpos (tipo AAB) foi completada denominando de Samba a configuração formada por dois subsistemas de dois corpos ligados e um virtual. As equações subtraídas para os estados ligados de quatro bosons também foram deduzidas.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Vilson Tonin Zanchin / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física, 2017. / No presente trabalho estudam-se buracos negros regulares e outros objetos compactos eletricamente carregados no contexto das teorias de Einstein-Maxwell. O objetivo principal do trabalho é a construção de soluções de buracos negros regulares e o estudo da estabilidade de cada solução. Com tal propósito, primeiro revisamos alguns conceitos fundamentais da Relatividade Geral e apresentamos as equações principais a serem usadas. Em particular, escrevemos explicitamente as equações de campo de Einstein para o caso de um uido anisotrópico eletricamente carregado, cuja distribuição de matéria-energia tem simetria esférica e uma equação de estado do tipo de Sitter, onde a pressão radial é igual ao negativo da densidade de energia. Em seguida, a equação de campo de Einstein é usada para busca de duas soluções, uma solução interior para a região com matéria, a qual não apresente singularidade, e outra solução exterior para a região fora da matéria que corresponde à métrica de Reissner-Nordström. Para construir uma solução à equação de campo de Einstein que seja válida em todos os pontos do espaço, aplicamos o formalismo de junção de Darmois-Israel com uma thin shell tipo-tempo. Supõe-se que a thin shell pode ter massa (densidade de energia) e pressão, na forma de um uido perfeito que obedece uma equação de estado barotrópica P = !. Uma equação de movimento para a shell é derivada das condições de junção. Encontram-se soluções estacionárias de buracos negros regulares e outros objetos compactos eletricamente carregados para escolhas especicas do parâmetro !, e encontram-se as regiões de estabilidade da solução para os casos em que a massa própria da shell é não negativa. / In the present work we study black holes and other electrically charged compact objects in the context of the Einstein-Maxwell theory. The main objective is the construction of solutions of black holes and the study of their stability. With this purpose, we rst reviewed some fundamental concepts of General Relativity introducing the main equations to be used. In particular, we write explicitly the Einstein's eld equations for the case of an electrically charged anisotropic uid, which presents spherical symmetry and a de Sitter type equation of state, where the radial pressure is equal to the negative of energy density. Then, the Einstein eld equation is used to search for two solutions, an interior solution for the region with matter, which presents no singularity, and an external solution for the region outside the matter, that corresponds to the Reissner-Nordström metric. To construct a complete solution we apply the Darmois-Israel junction conditions with a timelike thin shell at the matching surface. It is assumed that the thin shell may have mass (energy density) and pressure, in the form of a perfect uid obeying the barotropic equation of state P = !. The equations of motion for the shell is derived from the junction conditions. We show that there are stationary electrically charged regular black holes solutions and other compact objects for specic choices of the ! parameter. We also show the stability and instability regions of the solutions considering the regions fo the parameter space for which the the mass of the shell is non-negative.