Quantum Field Theory for Multipolar Composite Bosons with Mass Defect and Relativistic Corrections

verfasst von
Tobias Asano, Enno Giese, Fabio Di Pumpo
Abstract

Atomic high-precision measurements have become a competitive and essential technique for tests of fundamental physics, the Standard Model, and our theory of gravity. It is therefore self-evident that such measurements call for a consistent relativistic description of atoms that eventually originates from quantum field theories like quantum electrodynamics. Most quantum metrological approaches even postulate effective field-theoretical treatments to describe a precision enhancement through techniques like squeezing. However, a consistent derivation of interacting atomic quantum gases from an elementary quantum field theory that includes both the internal structure as well as the center of mass of atoms, has not yet been addressed. We present such a subspace effective field theory for interacting, spin carrying, and possibly charged ensembles of atoms composed of nucleus and electron that form composite bosons called cobosons, where the interaction with light is included in a multipolar description. Relativistic corrections to the energy of a single coboson, light-matter interaction, and the scattering potential between cobosons arise in a consistent and natural manner. In particular, we obtain a relativistic coupling between the coboson's center-of-mass motion and internal structure encoded by the mass defect. We use these results to derive modified bound-state energies, including the motion of ions, modified scattering potentials, a relativistic extension of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, and the mass defect applicable to atomic clocks or quantum clock interferometry.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Quantenoptik
Externe Organisation(en)
Universität Ulm
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Typ
Artikel
Journal
PRX Quantum
Band
5
Anzahl der Seiten
39
Publikationsdatum
26.04.2024
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Elektronische, optische und magnetische Materialien, Informatik (insg.), Mathematische Physik, Physik und Astronomie (insg.), Angewandte Mathematik, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.06110 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.020322 (Zugang: Offen)