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DE-SC0024333: Neutron Scattering Studies of Non-Linear Quantum Hydrodynamics and Backscattering in Low-Dimensional Systems

Award Status: Active
  • Institution: The Trustees of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  • UEI: YH86RTW2YVJ4
  • PM: Kerch, Helen
  • Most Recent Award Date: 05/12/2026
  • Number of Support Periods: 3
  • PI: Sokol, Paul
  • Current Budget Period: 09/01/2025 - 08/31/2027
  • Current Project Period: 09/01/2023 - 08/31/2027
 

Public Abstract

This joint experimental and theoretical effort seeks to develop novel nanoengineered porous materials capable of confining helium atoms in one dimension (1D) and utilizing neutron scattering to explore 1D Luttinger physics beyond the conventional linear regime. The great advantage of this system is that, in principle, the Luttinger liquid parameter (via the density of the 1D liquid) can be varied from the dilute (weakly interacting) limit to the concentrated (strongly interacting) limit. We will develop novel nanoengineered porous materials based on templated glasses plated with rare gas or rare earth atoms.  The preplating reduces the pore size and modifies the interactions between the helium and the confining media. Elastic and inelastic neutron scattering will be used to explore the static correlations, which are predicted to show algebraic singular behavior, and the dynamical excitations, which are predicted to exhibit “particle-hole” like excitations. Advanced computer simulations will be used to guide experimental studies and to test exotic field theoretic predictions.  The effects of static and dynamic disorder will also be explored.  Studies of helium-3 will provide a fermionic system that is a direct analog to electronic systems where phenomena such as charge-mass separation and Bose-Fermi duality can be explored. This research will develop a deeper fundamental understanding of a model that is not only central to many areas of current interest, but also has technological applications in nanoelectronics, atomtronics, quantum sensing and quantum information science.



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