| Publication Type | manuscript |
| School or College | College of Science |
| Department | Physics |
| Creator | Wu, Yong-Shi |
| Other Author | Zhai, Hui |
| Title | Wave function describing superfluidity in a perfect crystal |
| Date | 2005-07-01 |
| Description | We propose a many-body wave function that exhibits both diagonal and off-diagonal long-range order. Incorporating short-range correlations due to interatomic repulsion, this wave function is shown to allow condensation of zero-point lattice vibrations and phase rigidity. In the presence of an external velocity field, such a perfect crystal will develop non-classical rotational inertia, exhibiting the supersolid behavior. In a sample calculation we show that the superfluid fraction in this state can be as large as of order 0.01 in a reasonable range of microscopic parameters. The relevance to the recent experimental evidence of a supersolid state by Chan and Kim is discussed. |
| Type | Text |
| Publisher | Institute of Physics (IOP) |
| Journal Title | Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment |
| Volume | 2005 |
| Issue | 7 |
| First Page | P07003 |
| Last Page | P07003 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1742-5468/2005/07/P07003 |
| citatation_issn | 1742-5468 |
| Language | eng |
| Bibliographic Citation | Zhai, H., & Wu, Y.-S. (2005). Wave function describing superfluidity in a perfect crystal. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 7, 1-9. |
| Rights Management | © Institute of Physics |
| Format Medium | application/pdf |
| Format Extent | 555,935 bytes |
| Identifier | ir-main,9415 |
| ARK | ark:/87278/s6pz5t5f |
| Setname | ir_uspace |
| ID | 704672 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pz5t5f |