Publications

The Blume group was located at Washington State University from 2001-2017 and relocated to the University of Oklahoma in summer 2017.

Undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers of the Blume group are highlighted in bold.

2023

Z. N. Hardesty-Shaw, Q. Guan, J. O. Austin, D. Blume, R. J. Lewis-Swan, and Y. Liu, Quench-induced non equilibrium dynamics of spinor gases in moving lattice, Phys. Rev. A 107, 053311 (2023).

Jianwen Jie, Shan Zhong, Qimin Zhang, Isaiah Morgenstern, Hio Giap Ooi, Q. Guan, Anita Bhagat, Delaram Nematollahi, A. Schwettmann, and D. Blume, Dynamical mean-field-driven spinor-condensate physics beyond the single-mode approximation, Phys. Rev. A 107, 053309 (2023).

2022

J. Talukdar and D. Blume, Undamped Rabi oscillations due to polaron-emitter hybrid states in a nonlinear photonic waveguide coupled to emitters, Physical Review A 106, 013722 (2022).

J. Talukdar and D. Blume, Tow emitters coupled to a bath with Kerr-like nonlinearity: Exponential decay, fractional populations, and Rabi oscillations, Physical Review A 105, 063501 (2022).

A.J. Yates and D. Blume, Structural properties of ⁴He_N (N=2-10) clusters for different potential models at the physical point and at unitarity, Physical Review A 105, 022824 (2022).

2021

M. Kunitski, Q. Guan, H. Maschkiwitz, J. Hahnenbruch, S. Eckart, S. Zeller, A. Kalinin, M. Schoeffler, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, T. Jahnke, D. Blume, and R. Doerner, Ultrafast manipulation of the weakly bound helium dimer, Nature Physics 17, 174 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-01081-3.

2020

Q. Guan, M. K. H. Ome, T. M. Bersano, S. Mossman, P. Engels, and D. Blume, Nonexponential Tunneling due to Mean-Field-Induced Swallowtails, Physical Review Letters 125, 213401 (2020).

Jianwen Jie, Shan Zhong, Qimin Zhang, Isaiah Morgenstern, Hio Giap Ooi, Q. Guan, Anita Bhagat, Delaram Nematollahi, A. Schwettmann, and D. Blume, Dynamical mean-field driven spinor condensate physics beyond the single-mode approximation, submitted for publication (2020).

Jianwen Jie, Q. Guan, S. Zhong, A. Schwettmann, and D. Blume, Mean-field spin-oscillation dynamics beyond the single-mode approximation for a harmonically trapped spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate, Physical Review A 102, 023324 (2020).

Q. Guan, T. M. Bersano, S. Mossman, P. Engels, and D. Blume, Rabi oscillations and Ramsey-type pulses in ultracold bosons: Role of interaction, Physical Review A 101, 063620 (2020). Highlighted as an Editors’ Suggestion.

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2019

Q. Guan and D. Blume, Energetics and structural properties of two- and three-body
systems in the presence of one-dimensional spin-orbit coupling, Physical Review A 100, 042708 (2019).

F. Wang, X. Ye, M. Guo, D. Blume, and D. Wang, Observation of resonant scattering between ultracold heteronuclear Feshbach molecules, Physical Review A 100, 042706 (2019).

J. Jie, Q. Guan, and D. Blume, Spinor Bose-Einstein condensate interferometer within the undepleted pump approximation: Role of the initial state, Physical Review A 100, 043606 (2019).

Q. Guan and D. Blume, Electric-field-induced helium-helium resonances, Physical Review A 99, 033416 (2019).

Q. Guan, V. Klinkhammer, R. Klemt, J. H. Becher, A. Bergschneider, P. M. Preiss, S. Jochim, and D. Blume, Density Oscillations Induced by Individual Ultracold Two-Body Collisions, Physical Review Letters 122, 083401 (2019). Highlighted as an Editor’s Suggestion and through a Synopsis in Physics.

D. Blume, Few-boson system with a single impurity: Universal bound states tied to Efimov trimers, Physical Review A 99, 013613 (2019).

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2018

S.-J. Wang, Q. Guan, and D. Blume, K-matrix formulation of two-particle scattering in a waveguide in the presence of one-dimensional spin-orbit coupling, Physical Review A 98, 022708 (2018).

P. R. Johnson, D. Blume, X. Y. Yin, W. F. Flynn, and E. Tiesinga: Effective renormalized multi-body interactions of harmonically confined ultracold neutral bosons (vol 14, 053037, 2012). New Journal of Physics 20, 079501 (2018), Erratum.

Q. Guan and D. Blume, Three-Boson Spectrum in the Presence of 1D Spin-Orbit Coupling: Efimov’s Generalized Radial Scaling Law, Physical Review X 8, 021057 (2018).

D. Blume, M. W. C. Sze, and J. L. Bohn, Harmonically trapped four-boson system, Physical Review A 97, 033621 (2018).

M. W. C. Sze, A. G. Sykes, D. Blume, and J. L. Bohn, Hyperspherical lowest-order constrained-variational approximation to resonant Bose-Einstein condensates, Physical Review A 97, 033608 (2018).

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2017

Yangqian Yan and D. Blume, Path integral Monte Carlo ground state approach: Formalism, implementation, and applications, Journal of Physics B 50, 223001 (2017) (invited Tutorial).

Q. Guan and D. Blume, Analytical coupled-channel treatment of two-body scattering
in the presence of three-dimensional isotropic spin-orbit coupling, Physical Review A 95, 020702(R) (2017).

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2016

S. E. Gharashi and D. Blume, Broken scale invariance in time-dependent trapping potentials, Physical Review A 94, 063639 (2016).

Q. Guan and D. Blume, Scattering framework for two particles with isotropic spin-orbit coupling applicable to all energies, Physical Review A 94, 022706 (2016).

Y. Yan and D. Blume, Path-Integral Monte Carlo Determination of the Fourth-Order Virial Coefficient for a Unitary Two-Component Fermi Gas with Zero-Range Interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230401 (2016).

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2015

Yangqian Yan and D. Blume, Energy and structural properties of N-boson clusters attached to three-body Efimov states: Two-body zero-range interactions and the role of the three-body regulator, Physical Review A 92, 033626 (2015).

S. E. Gharashi and D. Blume, Tunneling dynamics of two interacting one-dimensional particles, Physical Review A 92, 033629 (2015).

Q. Guan and D. Blume, Spin-structure of harmonically trapped one-dimensional atoms with spin-orbit coupling, Physical Review A 92, 023641 (2015).

X. Y. Yin and D. Blume, Trapped unitary two-component Fermi gases with up to ten
particles, Physical Review A 92, 013608 (2015).

D. Blume, Efimov physics and the three-body parameter for shallow van der Waals potentials, Few-Body Systems 56, 859 (2015).

M. Kunitski, S. Zeller, J. Voigtsberger, A. Kalinin, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, M. Schoeffler, A. Czasch, W. Schoellkopf, R. E. Grisenti, T. Janke, D. Blume, and R. Doerner, Observation of the Efimov state of the helium trimer, Science 348, 551 (2015). This paper got a fair bit of press coverage, including a “Search and Discovery” summary in the July 2015 issue of Physics Today, a WSU News write-up, and an article in the science section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Yangqian Yan and D. Blume, Incorporating exact two-body propagators for zero-range interactions into N-body Monte Carlo simulations, Physical Review A 91, 043607 (2015).

S. E. Gharashi, X. Y. Yin, Yangqian Yan, and D. Blume, One-dimensional Fermi gas with a single impurity in a harmonic trap: Perturbative description of the upper branch, Physical Review A 91, 013620 (2015).

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2014

X.-Y. Yin, D. Blume, P. R. Johnson, and E. Tiesinga, Universal and non-universal effective N-body interactions for ultracold harmonically-trapped few-atom systems, Physical Review A 90, 043631 (2014). Selected as an Editor’s Suggestion.

D. Blume and Yangqian Yan, Generalized Efimov scenario for heavy-light mixtures, Physical Review Letters 113, 213201 (2014).

D. Blume, C. H. Greene, and B. D. Esry, Erratum: “Comparative study of He₃, Ne₃, and Ar₃ using hyperspherical coordinate” [J. Chem. Phys. 113, 2145 (2000)], J. Chem. Phys. 141, 069901 (2014).

Qingze Guan, X. Y. Yin, S. E. Gharashi, and D. Blume, Energy spectrum of a harmonically trapped two-atom system with spin-orbit coupling, Journal of Physics B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 47, 161001 (2014). Fast Track Communication.

Yangqian Yan and D. Blume, Temperature-dependence of small harmonically trapped atom systems with Bose, Fermi and Boltzmann statistics, Physical Review A 90, 013620 (2014).

Yangqian Yan and D. Blume, Abnormal Superfluid Fraction of Harmonically Trapped Few-Fermion Systems, Physical Review Letters 112, 235301 (2014).

D. Blume, Three-body bound states in a harmonic waveguide with cylindrical symmetry, Physical Review A 89, 053603 (2014). Selected as an Editor’s Suggestion.

X. Y. Yin, S. Gopalakrishnan, and D. Blume, Harmonically trapped two-atom systems:
Interplay of short-range s-wave interaction and spin-orbit coupling, Physical Review A 89, 033606 (2014).

S. E. Gharashi, X. Y. Yin, and D. Blume, Molecular branch of a small highly elongated Fermi gas with an impurity: Full three-dimensional versus effective one-dimensional description, Physical Review A 89, 023603 (2014).

K. M. Daily and D. Blume, Tunable high-temperature thermodynamics of weakly-interacting dipolar gases, Physical Review A 89, 013606 (2014).

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2013

Yangqian Yan and D. Blume, Harmonically trapped Fermi gas: Temperature dependence of the Tan contact, Physical Review A 88, 023616 (2013).

S. E. Gharashi and D. Blume, Correlations of the Upper Branch of 1D Harmonically Trapped Two-Component Fermi Gases, Physical Review Letters 111, 045302 (2013).

X. Y. Yin and D. Blume, Small two-component Fermi gases in a cubic box with periodic boundary conditions, Physical Review A 87, 063609 (2013).

J. Mitroy, S. Bubin, W. Horiuchi, Y. Suzuki, L. Adamowicz, W. Cencek, K. Szalewicz, J. Komasa, D. Blume, and K. Varga. Theory and application of explicitly correlated Gaussians, Review of Modern Physics 85, 693 (2013).

A. Safavi-Naini, S. T. Rittenhouse, D. Blume, and H. R. Sadeghpour, Nonuniversal bound states of two identical heavy fermions and one light particle, Physical Review A 87, 032713 (2013).

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2012

D. Rakshit and D. Blume, Hyperspherical explicitly correlated Gaussian approach for few-body systems with finite angular momentum, Physical Review A 86, 062513 (2012).

D. Blume, Universal four-body bound states in heavy-light mixtures with positive scattering length, Physical Review Letters 109, 230404 (2012).

S. E. Gharashi, K. M. Daily, and D. Blume, Three s-wave-interacting fermions under anisotropic harmonic confinement: Dimensional crossover of energetics and virial coefficients, Physical Review A 86, 042702 (2012).

K. M. Daily, D. Rakshit, and D. Blume, Degeneracies in trapped two-component Fermi gases, Physical Review Letters 109, 030401 (2012). Selected as an Editor’s Suggestion.

P. R. Johnson, D. Blume, X. Y. Yin, W. F. Flynn, and E. Tiesinga, Effective multibody interactions of harmonically confined ultracold neutral bosons, New Journal of Physics 14, 053037 (2012).

K. M. Daily, X. Y. Yin, and D. Blume, Occupation numbers of the harmonically trapped few-boson system, Physical Review A 85, 053614 (2012).

D. Rakshit, K. M. Daily, and D. Blume, Natural and unnatural parity states of small trapped equal-mass two-component Fermi gases at unitarity and fourth-order virial coefficient, Physical Review A 85, 033634 (2012).

D. Blume, Few-body physics with ultracold atomic and molecular systems in traps, Reports on Progress in Physics 75, 046401 (2012). Invited review article.

K. M. Daily and D. Blume, Thermodynamics of the two-component Fermi gas with unequal masses at unitarity, Physical Review A 85, 013609 (2012).

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2011

M. Asad-uz-Zaman and D. Blume, Modification of roton instability due to the presence of a second dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate, Physical Review A 83, 033616 (2011).

D. Blume and K. M. Daily, Trapped two-component Fermi gases with up to six particles:
Energetics, structural properties, and molecular condensate fraction, C. R. Physique 12, 86 (2011).

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2010

D. Blume and K. M. Daily, Few-body resonances of unequal-mass systems with infinite interspecies two-body s-wave scattering length, Physical Review A 82, 063612 (2010).

D. Blume and K. M. Daily, Breakdown of Universality for Unequal-Mass Fermi Gases with Infinite Scattering Length, Physical Review Letters 105, 170403 (2010).

M. Asad-uz-Zaman and D. Blume, Tuning the structural and dynamical properties of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate: Ripples and instability islands, New Journal of Physics 12, 065022 (2010).

K. M. Daily and D. Blume, Energy spectrum of harmonically trapped two-component Fermi gases: Three- and Four-Particle Problem, Physical Review A 81, 053615 (2010).

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2009

D. Blume and K. M. Daily, Universal relations for trapped four-fermion system with arbitrary s-wave scattering length, Physical Review A 80, 053626 (2009).

M. Asad-uz-Zaman and D. Blume, Aligned dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential: From cigar-shaped to pancake-shaped, Physical Review A 80, 053622 (2009). Article was selected for the December 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids.

D. Blume and D. Rakshit, Excitations and effective interactions of highly elongated Fermi gas, Physical Review A 80, 013601 (2009). Article was selected for the August 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids.

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2008

K. Kanjilal and D. Blume, Low-energy resonances and bound states of aligned bosonic and fermionic dipoles, Physical Review A 78, 040703(R) (2008).

D. Blume, Trapped polarized Fermi gas at unitarity, Physical Review A 78, 013635 (2008).

D. Blume, Small mass- and trap-imbalanced two-component Fermi systems, Physical Review A 78, 013613 (2008).

J. von Stecher, C. H. Greene, and D. Blume, Energetics and Structural Properties of Trapped
Two-Component Fermi Gases, Physical Review A 77, 043619 (2008).

D. Blume, S. T. Rittenhouse, J. von Stecher, and C. H. Greene, Stability of inhomogeneous multicomponent Fermi gases, Physical Review A 77, 033627 (2008).

R. M. Kalas and D. Blume, Dilute Bose gases interacting via power-law potentials, Physical Review A 77, 032703 (2008).

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2007

D. Blume, J. von Stecher, and C. H. Greene, Universal properties of a trapped two-component Fermi gas at unitarity, Physical Review Letters 99, 233201 (2007).

J. von Stecher, C. H. Greene, and D. Blume, BEC-BCS crossover of a trapped two-component Fermi gas with unequal masses, Physical Review A 76, 053613 (2007).

R. M. Kalas and D. Blume, Equation of state of cold atoms: A lowest-order-constrained variational study of systems with large non-s-wave scattering lengths, Physical Review A 76, 013617 (2007).

K. Kanjilal, J. L. Bohn, and D. Blume, Pseudopotential treatment of two aligned dipoles under external harmonic confinement, Physical Review A 75, 052705 (2007).

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2006

G. J. Hanna and D. Blume, Energetics and structural properties of three-dimensional bosonic clusters near threshold, Physical Review A 74, 063604 (2006).

K. Kanjilal and D. Blume, Coupled-channel pseudopotential description of the Feshbach resonance in two dimensions, Physical Review A 73, 060701(R) (2006).

S. Ronen, D. C. E. Bortolotti, D. Blume, and J. L. Bohn, Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates with dipole dependent scattering length, Physical Review A 74, 033611 (2006).

D. C. E. Bortolotti, S. Ronen, J. L. Bohn, and D. Blume, Scattering Length Instability in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates, Physical Review Letters 97, 160402 (2006).

R. M. Kalas and D. Blume, Interaction-Induced Localization of an Impurity in a Trapped Bose Condensate, Physical Review A 73, 043608 (2006).

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2005

K. Nho and D. Blume, Superfluidity of Mesoscopic Bose Gases under Varying Confinements,
Physical Review Letters 95, 193601 (2005). Article was selected for the November 14, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.

D. Blume, Threshold behavior of bosonic two-dimensional few-body systems, Physical Review B 72, 094510 (2005).

J. W. Dunn, D. Blume, B. Borca, B. E. Granger, and C. H. Greene, Feshbach resonance cooling of trapped atom pairs, Physical Review A 71, 033402 (2005).

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2004

G. Tejeda, J. M. Fernandez, S. Montero, D. Blume, and J. P. Toennies, Raman spectroscopy of small para-H₂ clusters formed in cryogenic free jet expansion, Physical Review Letters 92, 223401 (2004). Article was selected for the June 14, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology. Article was highlighted in Physics News Update, Number 687(2), June 4, 2004.

G. E. Astrakharchik, D. Blume, S. Giorgini, and L. P. Pitaevskii, Interacting fermions in highly elongated harmonic traps, Physical Review Letters 93, 050402 (2004).

K. Kanjilal and D. Blume, Non-divergent pseudo-potential treatment of spin-polarized fermions under 1D and 3D harmonic confinement, Physical Review A 70, 042709 (2004).

B. E. Granger and D. Blume, Tuning the interactions of spin-polarized fermions using quasi-one-dimensional confinement, Physical Review Letters 92, 133202 (2004).

G. E. Astrakharchik, D. Blume, S. Giorgini, and B. E. Granger, Monte Carlo study of quasi-one-dimensional Bose gases, Journal of Physics B 37, S205 (2004).

G. E. Astrakharchik, D. Blume, S. Giorgini, and B. E. Granger, Quasi-one-dimensional Bose gases with large scattering length, Physical Review Letters 92, 030402 (2004).

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2003

B. Borca, D. Blume, and C. H. Greene, A Two-Atom Picture of Coherent Atom-Molecule
Quantum Beats, New Journal of Physics 5, 111 (2003).

D. Blume, The few-body problem for bosons under external confinement, Laser Physics 13, 566 (2003).

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2002

D. Blume, Fermionization of a bosonic gas under highly elongated confinement: A diffusion quantum Monte Carlo study, Physical Review A 66, 053613 (2002).

D. Blume, B. D. Esry, C. H. Greene, N. N. Klausen, and G. J. Hanna, Formation of atomic tritium clusters and condensates, Physical Review Letters 89, 163402 (2002).

D. Blume and C. H. Greene, Three particles in an external trap: Nature of the complete J=0 spectrum, Physical Review A 66, 013601 (2002).

D. Blume and C. H. Greene, Fermi pseudopotential approximation: Two particles under external confinement, Physical Review A 65, 043613 (2002).

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Blume’s publications from postdoctoral work with Prof. Chris Greene at JILA/CU Boulder

D. Blume and C. H. Greene, Lowest breathing mode of bosonic helium clusters, European Physical Journal D 18, 83 (2002).

D. Blume and C. H. Greene, Quantum corrections to the ground state energy of a
trapped Bose-Einstein condensate: A diffusion Monte Carlo calculation, Physical Review A 63, 063601 (2001).

B. D. Esry, C. D. Lin, C. H. Greene, and D. Blume, Comment on “Efimov States for ⁴He Trimers?”, Physical Review Letters 86, 4189 (2001).

D. Blume and C. H. Greene, Vibrationally excited states and fragmentation geometries of Ne_N and Ar_N clusters, N=3-6, using hyperspherical coordinates, Journal of Chemical Physics 113, 4242 (2000).

D. Blume, C. H. Greene, and B. D. Esry, Comparative study of He₃, Ne₃, and Ar₃ using hyperspherical coordinates, Journal of Chemical Physics 113, 2145 (2000).

D. Blume and C. H. Greene, Monte Carlo hyperspherical description of helium cluster excited states, Journal of Chemical Physics 112, 8053 (2000).

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Blume’s publications from graduate work with Profs. Birgitta Whaley (UC Berkeley) and Peter Toennies (Max-Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Goettingen)

Y. Kwon, P. Huang, M. V. Patel, D. Blume, and K. B. Whaley, Quantum solvation and molecular rotations in superfluid helium clusters, Journal of Chemical Physics 113, 6469 (2000).

D. Blume and K. B. Whaley, Tunneling splittings in water trimer by projector Monte Carlo, Journal of Chemical Physics 112, 2218 (2000).

D. Blume, M. Mladenovic, M. Lewerenz, and K. B. Whaley, Excited states of van der Waals clusters by projector Monte Carlo, with application to excitations of molecules in small 4Hen, Journal of Chemical Physics 110, 5789 (1999).

D. Blume, M. Lewerenz, and K. B. Whaley, Excited states by quantum Monte Carlo method, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 47, 133 (1998).

D. Blume, M. Lewerenz, and K. B. Whaley, Quantum Monte Carlo methods for rovibrational states of molecular systems, Journal of Chemical Physics 107, 9067 (1997).

D. Blume, M. Lewerenz, P. Niyaz, and K. B. Whaley, Excited states by quantum Monte Carlo methods: Imaginary time evolution with projection operators, Physical Review E 55, 3664 (1997).

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Blume’s publication from undergraduate work with Prof. Marius Lewerenz (Max-Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Goettingen, and Georg-August University, Goettingen)

D. Blume, M. Lewerenz, F. Huisken, and M. Kaloudis, Vibrational frequency shift of HF in helium clusters: Quantum simulation and experiment, Journal of Chemical Physics 105, 8666 (1996).

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