Weakly Interacting Bose Gas in the One-Dimensional Limit

We prepare a chemically and thermally one-dimensional (1D) quantum degenerate Bose gas in a single microtrap. We introduce a new interferometric method to distinguish the quasicondensate fraction of the gas from the thermal cloud at finite temperature. We reach temperatures down to kT≈0.5ℏω⊥ (transv...

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Main Authors: Kruger, P. (Author), Hofferberth, Sebastian (Contributor), Mazets, I. E. (Author), Lesanovsky, I. (Author), Schmiedmayer, J. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor), MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2011-07-08T22:07:07Z.
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520 |a We prepare a chemically and thermally one-dimensional (1D) quantum degenerate Bose gas in a single microtrap. We introduce a new interferometric method to distinguish the quasicondensate fraction of the gas from the thermal cloud at finite temperature. We reach temperatures down to kT≈0.5ℏω⊥ (transverse oscillator eigenfrequency ω⊥) when collisional thermalization slows down as expected in 1D. At the lowest temperatures the transverse-momentum distribution exhibits a residual dependence on the line density n1D [n subscript 1D], characteristic for 1D systems. For very low densities the approach to the transverse single-particle ground state is linear in n1D [n subscript 1D]. 
520 |a European Union 
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520 |a Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 
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773 |t Physical Review Letters