Abstract
As the spatial dimension is lowered, locally stabilizing interactions are reduced, leading to the emergence of strongly fluctuating phases of matter without classical analogues. Here we report on the experimental observation of a one dimensional quantum liquid of 4He using nanoengineering by confining it within a porous material preplated with a noble gas to enhance dimensional reduction. The resulting excitations of the confined 4He are qualitatively different than bulk superfluid helium, and can be analyzed in terms of a mobile impurity allowing for the characterization of the emergent quantum liquid beyond the Luttinger liquid paradigm. The low dimensional helium system offers the possibility of tuning via pressure—from weakly interacting, all the way to the super Tonks-Girardeau gas of strongly interacting hard-core particles.
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Introduction
The helium isotopes 3He and 4He have long served as model systems for precision tests of theories of strongly interacting quantum matter and phase transitions for bosons, fermions, and mixed statistics systems. This has been spectacularly successful in two1 and three dimensions2, where the dynamics can be understood in terms of quasi-particles which retain the original nature of the system through renormalized properties. In one spatial dimension (1D), the fundamental excitations of a quantum liquid of helium will be collective in nature, and at long wavelengths and low energies, it should be described via the linear hydrodynamics of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) theory3,4,5,6. Within this picture, the distinction between bosons and fermions begins to break down and access to both bosonic and fermionic isotopes makes 1D helium an exciting system to explore. This has motivated a number of experimental7,8,9,10,11,12 and theoretical13,14,15,16,17,18,19 studies in quasi-1D confinement, providing tantalizing evidence of low-dimensional or TLL behavior. However, as helium is a neutral quantum liquid, the route to 1D requires physical confinement in two out of three dimensions at the level of a single nanometer—the scale of the superfluid coherence length at low temperature—a difficult feat for real devices.
In this work, we introduce a nanoengineered confining environment, and report elastic and inelastic neutron scattering measurements of helium. By analyzing the observed excitation spectrum within the context of a non-linear Luttinger liquid we demonstrate the existence of generalized quantum hydrodynamics in one dimensional bosonic 4He.
Results
Confined helium
Our confinement platform consists of 4He adsorbed inside MCM-41, a mesoporous material with a hierarchical structure consisting of cylindrical pores arranged in a hexagonal lattice, pre-plated with a single monolayer of argon18. The MCM-41 sample had an as-synthesized pore diameter of 3.0 ± 0.3 nm as determined by N2 isotherms, known to be too large to yield 1D confinement20. The effective pore diameter was reduced to 2 nm through a pre-treatment step where Ar gas was added at 90 K. The resulting Ar/MCM-41 confining environment was characterized via a 4He adsorption isotherm at T = 4.2 K combined with molecular dynamics and quantum Monte Carlo simulations as shown in Fig. 1 (for sample preparation and simulation details see the Methods section). The results demonstrate that the helium atoms are initially strongly bound to the Ar-plated pore walls at low fillings, and completely fill the pores at 13 mmol g−1. At intermediate filling, nested cylindrical layers of helium are formed and particle exchanges between them are suppressed.
Static structure inside nanopores
Understanding this microscopic structure will be crucial to interpret excitations inside the pores as measured by both elastic and inelastic neutron scattering. It is important to note that the elastic scattering with zero energy transfer E = 0 at wavevector Q, S(Q, 0), is distinct from the static structure factor \(S(Q)=\int\nolimits_{-\infty }^{\infty }S(Q,E)\,dE\) which averages the collective motion of the system over all time scales. The elastic scattering, in contrast, probes the static behavior of the system. For example, while bulk liquid helium exhibits a well defined S(Q) reflecting the dynamic correlations in the liquid2, the elastic scattering is identically zero. Helium confined in various porous media11 does exhibit elastic scattering due to the presence of solid layers strongly adsorbed on the pore boundaries (see Fig. 1b). However, in previously studied pores with large radii that are not yet in the quasi-1D regime, dense liquid layers and a bulk-like liquid in the center of the pore do not contribute to the elastic scattering.
Experimental results for elastic scattering from helium confined inside Ar pre-plated MCM-41 are shown in Fig. 2a, where two clear features are apparent. (1) There is a broad peak at ~2.1 Å−1 which we attribute to the second and third strongly adsorbed layers of helium in the pores. We note that due to the existence of the adsorption potential, these layers are more dense than helium in the bulk, and their inter-atomic spacing is consistent with this peak as observed in quantum Monte Carlo simulations (panels b, c) which show the predicted pair correlation function \({g}_{2}(r)=\left\langle \rho (r)\rho (0)\right\rangle\) where ρ(r) is the density of 4He and resulting elastic scattering S(Q, 0) (see Methods for details). Here, different curves correspond to the different filling fractions presented in Fig. 1 and the qualitative agreement between the simulation and experiments supports this picture. (2) A narrow feature at ~1.6 Å−1 that we attribute to the atoms at the center of the pore—the core liquid. This peak has been fit to a Gaussian centered at 1.60 ± 0.02 Å−1 which corresponds to an atomic spacing of 3.92 ± 0.05 Å. This is in agreement with simulation results for only those atoms in the 1D central core shown in panels d, e where weakly decaying oscillations in the density-density correlations along the pore produce a strong peak in the elastic scattering. Such a peak is predicted by the TLL theory to occur at a wavevector of 2kF = 2πρ1D due to the existence of algebraically decaying Bragg peaks in the structure factor21 and has been previously observed in numerical simulations of strictly one dimensional 4He22. The emergence of a Fermi wavevector is a consequence of 1D where the hard core of the 4He–4He interaction potential dominates making the bosonic system exhibit properties of an ideal gas of spinless fermions. This is consistent with the interpretation that in interacting gapless quantum systems kF corresponds to the smallest momentum at which energy can be absorbed.
Thus we can separate contributions of adsorbed layers and central core atoms, which are highlighted by two vertical dashed lines in panels c and e, and repeated in panel a, supporting the interpretation of the experimental results as demonstrating the existence of a one dimensional quasi-liquid of helium with a linear density near ρ1D ≈ 0.25 Å−1. Further evidence comes from the relative intensity of this peak and that due to the first and second layers, which is in agreement with the theoretical number of atoms in the core liquid versus shell region (see Supplementary information).
Excitations of low-dimensional helium
We now turn to probing the dynamics of the confined helium within the nanopores. Figures 3a and 4 show the measured inelastic scattering as captured by the dynamic structure factor S(Q, E) while Fig. 3b shows a quantum Monte Carlo prediction for a purely 1D model of 4He using differential evolution to analytically continue imaginary time correlations to real frequencies23. As described above, the observed S(Q, E) arises primarily for the core quasi-liquid, with the immobile solid layers contributing very little to the inelastic scattering. Figure 3a demonstrates a single well defined inelastic feature which begins at ~1.6 Å−1 and its energy increases monotonically and smoothly with increasing wavevector Q. We note that this is qualitatively distinct from bulk liquid helium (dashed line) which exhibits a well defined excitation spectrum with a linear phonon mode at low Q (Ephonon ∝ Q) and a very intense roton mode with gap Δ at intermediate Q = Qr ≈ 1.9 Å−1 (\({E}_{{{{{{{{\rm{roton}}}}}}}}}\approx {{\Delta }}+C{(Q-{Q}_{r})}^{2}\)) and a plateau at ~ 1.5 meV at Q > Qr due to two roton processes.
While at low-Q, the harmonic Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory describes a phonon branch where the only excitations are density waves propagating with velocity v such that S(Q, E) ≃ Qδ(E − ℏvQ)24, at higher Q, the dynamic structure factor is known to be markedly different. Here, the effects of band curvature introduce edge singularities in S(Q, E)25,26,27 where low-energy excitations can only proliferate above an energy threshold Eth. By interpreting the excitations of 4He confined in Ar-preplated MCM-41 in terms of an effective quantum impurity model for a hole propagating in an otherwise linear TLL25,26,27,28, the dynamical structure factor can be shown to develop a Q-dependent power law singularity at low energies:
where for a model of hard core bosons17,22
with K the Luttinger parameter and the appearance of the Fermi energy \({E}_{{{{{{{{\rm{F}}}}}}}}}={\hslash }^{2}{k}_{{{{{{{{\rm{F}}}}}}}}}^{2}/(2m)\) further supporting the emergent fermionization of the 1D 4He. Here the exponent μ(Q) is both non-universal (depending on the details of the microscopic interactions and cutoff) as well as momentum dependent, and can vary significantly near 2kF, even changing sign17,22! We interpret the observed inelastic branch in Fig. 3 as corresponding to Eth and fit the maxima to Eq. (2) over a broad range of Q (see Fig. 4a–d) with the value of 2kF fixed at 1.6 Å−1 as determined by the elastic scattering. This allows us to extract a best fit value of the Luttinger parameter of \(K=1.1{8}_{-0.20}^{+0.38}\) which is consistent with microscopic predictions for 4He inside smooth nanopores from quantum Monte Carlo15 as well as a model of hardcore bosons where \(K={(1-{\rho }_{1D}{a}_{1D})}^{2}\) with a1D the effective 1D scattering length29.
The emergence of a 1D quasi-liquid is further supported by Fig. 4e–g which shows the weak temperature dependence of the inelastic scattering below T = 4.2 K where the main dispersing feature becomes more diffuse as the temperature is increased. This is consistent with the extracted value of K ≃ 1.2 which sets the relevant scale below which we expect to observe TLL behavior to be T ≪ ℏvQ/kB ≃ 4EF/(KkB) ≃ 13 K for Q ≃ 2kF where kB is Boltzmann’s constant. Thus the helium core liquid still retains its 1D excitation spectrum even above the bulk superfluid temperature.
Discussion
We have created a nano-engineered confinement environment for helium that has allowed us to observe 1D quantum liquid behavior beyond the Luttinger liquid paradigm and obtained information on the microscopic structure inside the pores via quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The next steps are many, including exploring the ability to control the filling fraction via pressure near the full pore regime to tune the density (and thus Luttinger parameter) of the confined liquid, manifest as a modified slope of the inelastic threshold Eth in the excitation spectrum. Replacing bosonic 4He with the fermionic isotope 3He is even more exciting and would potentially open the door for the observation of spin-mass separation, where spin and density waves propagate with different excitation velocities.
Methods
Sample characterization
MCM-41 is a mesoporous material with a hierarchical structure consisting of cylindrical pores arranged in a hexagonal lattice. It is produced using a surfactant templating technique that produces pores that are monodisperse, unidirectional, and have a regular 2D hexagonal structure. The typical aspect ratio of the pores is ~1000:1 making them an attractive medium for studies of 1D behavior. The sample and characterization techniques have been reported previously and we will briefly review them here.
Our sample was obtained from Sigma-Aldrich30 and was characterized using X-ray powder diffraction and N2 gas adsorption isotherm measurements10. The X-ray diffraction data indicated that the sample consisted of a single phase with pores arranged on a hexagonal lattice with a lattice constant of 4.7 nm. A Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis31 of the N2 isotherm gave a surface area of 915 m2/g. The pore diameter size distribution was calculated using the Kruk-Jaroniec-Sayari method32 and was found to be Gaussian with a mean value of 3.0 nm and a full-width at half-maximum of 0.3 nm.
Adsorption isotherms were also carried out with research grade Ar gas at 90 K to determine the monolayer coverage18. A BET analysis of the isotherm yielded a monolayer coverage of 8.994 mmol g−1. This monolayer coverage, when combined with the measured surface area, yields an aerial coverage of 0.59 Å−2 and, using the van der Waals radius for Ar, a monolayer density of nAr = 0.017 Å−3.
We also carried out 4He isotherms on MCM-41 preplated with a single monolayer of Ar. The Ar pre-plating was carried out at 90 K and then the sample was slowly cooled to 4.2 K over the course of several hours. 4He isotherms were then carried out at 4.2 K using standard volumetric techniques. The results are shown in Fig. 1 of the main text. The initially adsorbed 4He is strongly bound to the surface of the MCM-41 resulting in zero pressure rise until ~7.5 mmol g−1 has been adsorbed. There is a small region between ~7.5 nmol/g−1 and 13 mmol g−1 where the pressure increases. Once a filling of 13 mmol g−1 has been reached no additional helium is adsorbed into the pores until the pressure is close to the bulk vapor pressure P0. Once P/P0 is greater than ~0.9, 4He capillary condenses between the MCM-41 grains.
Neutron scattering
Neutron scattering studies of 4He in Ar preplated MCM-41 were carried out using the Disc Chopper Spectrometer (DCS) at the NIST Center for Neutron Research33. This instrument is a direct geometry time-of-flight chopper spectrometer which views a cold moderator. High speed choppers are used to create a pulsed neutron beam with a well defined incident wavelength. Neutrons scattered by the sample are detected by a secondary spectrometer consisting of 913 3He detectors 4.01 m from the sample at scattering angles from 5∘ to 140∘. Standard data reduction routines34 are used to convert the observed scattering to the dynamic structure factor S(Q, E).
The sample for these studies consisted of 6.13 g of MCM-41 inside a cylindrical aluminum can. The MCM-41 was in the form of cylindrical pellets 1.25 cm in diameter and 1 cm high with a mass of 0.875 g. The pellets were baked in vacuum at 120 ∘C to remove adsorbed water vapor. The sample was then transferred to an aluminum sample cell in a nitrogen glove box. The cell was a cylindrical aluminum can of outer diameter 1.5 cm, a height of 6 cm, and a wall thickness of 1 mm. The pellets were separated by cadmium spacers to reduce multiple scattering. A top-loading liquid helium cryostat with aluminum tails, commonly referred to as an “orange" cryostat, was used to obtain the low temperatures examined in this study. A silicon diode was used to monitor the sample temperature.
Incident wavevectors of 4.0, 2.5 and 1.71 Å−1 were used (see Fig. 4 in the main text for incident wavevector dependence). Longer incident wavelengths offer the advantage of better energy resolution but at significantly decreased intensity and range of momentum transfers, Q, accessible. The studies at 4.0 Å−1 had an energy resolution of 93.6 μeV. However, the flux was limited to 1.05 × 105 neutrons/cm2/s and the maximum Q was 2.9 Å−1. Due to this lower flux and limited Q range we limited these studies to two fillings of monolayer and slightly overfilled pores. More extensive studies at a variety of fillings were carried out at 2.5 Å−1. The energy resolution was significantly larger (772 μeV) but with much larger incident flux (8.75 × 105 neutrons/cm2/s) and Q range (4.6 Å−1). A limited number of measurements were also carried out at 1.71 Å−1. These measurements had significantly worse energy resolution (2370 μeV) but a much expanded Q range (6.8 Å−1). However, since DCS is located on a cold moderator the flux is significantly decreased (1.89 × 105 neutrons/cm2/s) at these short wavelengths.
Theoretical modeling
An ab initio model of superfluid 4He confined inside ordered nanoporous MCM-41 pre-pated with argon gas can be constructed from the superposition of single pores, each described by a N-body Hamiltonian:
where m is the mass of a single 4He atom located at position ri = (xi, yi, zi) confined inside a nanopore by \({U}_{{{{{{{{\rm{pore}}}}}}}}}\) and interacting with other He atoms through VHe. Both potential energy terms arise from induced dipole-dipole interactions. \({U}_{{{{{{{{\rm{pore}}}}}}}}}\) was recently determined for the specific system under consideration here18 while VHe is known to high precision35,36,37.
Quantum Monte Carlo Method
A system of confined helium described by Eq. (3) was simulated using a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm exploiting path integrals18,38,39. T > 0 expectation values of observables \({{{{{{{\mathcal{O}}}}}}}}\) were sampled via
where β = 1/kBT is the inverse temperature and the partition function \({{{{{{{\mathcal{Z}}}}}}}}={{{{{{{\rm{Tr}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{\rm{e}}}}}}}}}^{-\beta H}\) can be written as a sum of discrete imaginary time paths (worldlines) over the set of all permutations \({{{{{{{\mathcal{P}}}}}}}}\) of the first quantized labels of the N indistinguishable 4He atoms:
Here τ = β/M is the imaginary time step where \(M\in {\mathbb{Z}}\gg 1\) and Rα ≡ rα,1, rα,2, …, rα,N are the spatial positions of the particles at imaginary time slice α. Bosonic symmetry restricts \({{{{{{{\mathcal{P}}}}}}}}{R}_{M}={R}_{0}\) and we have employed the short-hand notation \(\int {{{{{{{\mathcal{D}}}}}}}}{R}_{\alpha }\equiv \mathop{\prod }\nolimits_{i = 1}^{N}\int {{{{{{{\rm{d}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{\boldsymbol{r}}}}}}}}}_{\alpha ,i}\) and Λ = ℏ2/(2m). Discrete imaginary time-step errors are suppressed to O(τ4)40 through an effective imaginary time action
where
Simulations were performed at T = 1.6 K for four chemical potentials: μ/kB = −47 K, −27 K, −19 K and −7 K that were identified as representative of the nanopores at different stages of filling– from a single adsorbed layer at μ/kB = −47 K to a fully filled pore at μ/kB = −7 K (see Fig. 1 in the main text). The pores had outer radius R = 15.51 Å and length L = 50 Å and all simulations were performed in the grand canonical ensemble yielding N ≈ 600 helium atoms for μ/kB = −7 K. Trotter errors were deemed to be smaller than statistical uncertainties for τ ⋅ kB = 1/250 K−1, which was used for all simulations. Further details (including the effects of the finite pore length) are reported in ref. 18. The quantum Monte Carlo software used to produce all results is available online41.
Observables
Using the quantum Monte Carlo method described above we measure the radial density (Fig. 1):
the density-density correlation function (Fig. 2b,d):
and the structure factor (elastic scattering, Fig. 2c, e):
Here V is the accessible volume of the pore and \(\rho ({{{{{{{\boldsymbol{Q}}}}}}}})=\mathop{\sum }\nolimits_{i = 1}^{N}\exp (-i{{{{{{{\boldsymbol{Q}}}}}}}}\cdot {{{{{{{{\boldsymbol{r}}}}}}}}}_{i})\). The core versions of these estimators in Fig. 2d, e include only those 4He atoms with \(\sqrt{{x}_{i}^{2}+{y}_{i}^{2}} \, < \, 1.72\) Å identified as the location of the first minimum of ρrad(r) shown in Fig. 1b for the full pore with μ/kB = −7 K.
For the inelastic scattering S(Q, E) in Fig. 3b, simulations were performed on a purely one-dimensional system of 4He with L = 200 Å in the canonical ensemble at fixed ρ1D = 0.14 Å−1 and T = 1.6 K. The intermediate scattering function:
is related to the dynamic structure factor S(Q, E) via:
which can be inverted using a recently introduced parameter-free differential evolution algorithm for imaginary time correlation functions23.
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid predictions
The one-dimensional density-density correlation function can be computed within the effective quantum hydrodynamic theory to be15,42:
where η( ⋅ ) is the Dedekind eta function and θ1(z, q) is the Jacobi theta function of the first kind. This expression depends on 3 parameters: K, v and \({{{{{{{\mathcal{A}}}}}}}}\) with ρ1D being determined from simulations as ρ1D = N/L. In practice it is beneficial to first fit the envelope of decay from the asymptotic form:
to obtain reasonable initial values for the parameters before performing a full non-linear fit to Eq. (13). For the core 4He atoms with ρ1D = 0.293(2) shown in Fig. 2d we find K = 0.15(4), ℏv/kB = 8(3)Å K and \({{{{{{{\mathcal{A}}}}}}}}=0.036(2)\). The different value of K extracted in this simulation compared to that found by analyzing the experimentally determined S(Q, E) is due to this pore being closer to the fully filled regime with ρ1D ≈ 0.3 as opposed to ρ1D ≈ 0.25 found in the experiment.
Data availability
The experimental and processed quantum Monte Carlo data generated in this study have been deposited in a github repository under accession code https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.611239943. The complete (raw) simulation data set has been deposited on Zenodo under accession code https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.601249844.
Code availability
The code and scripts used to process data and generate all figures in this paper are available online at https://github.com/DelMaestroGroup/papers-code-preplated-nanopores-scattering43.
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We acknowledge the support of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, in providing the neutron research facilities used in this work. This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under award Nos. DMR-1809027 (P.E.S. and G.W.) and DMR-1808440 (A.D.). This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project DMR190101 (A.D.), which is supported by NSF grant number ACI-1548562. XSEDE resources used include Bridges at Pittsburgh Supercomputing, Comet at San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Open Science Grid (OSG) through allocations TG-DMR190045 and TG-DMR190101. OSG is supported by the NSF under award No. 1148698, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Certain commercial equipment, instruments, or materials (or suppliers, or software, etc.) are identified in this paper to foster understanding. Such identification does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor does it imply that the materials or equipment identified are necessarily the best available for the purpose.
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A.D. and P.E.S. conceived the idea. P.E.S., G.W. and T.R.P. performed the neutron scattering studies. P.E.S. and T.R.P. analyzed the neutron scattering data. G.W. and P.E.S. carried out sample characterization. N.S.N and A.D. performed the theoretical analysis and numerical calculations. All the authors participated in discussions and in writing the manuscript.
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Del Maestro, A., Nichols, N.S., Prisk, T.R. et al. Experimental realization of one dimensional helium. Nat Commun 13, 3168 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30752-3
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