Collisions, correlations, and integrability in atom waveguides

Vladimir A. Yurovsky*, Maxim Olshanii, David S. Weiss

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Abstract

Elongated atom traps can confine ultracold gases in the quasi-one-dimensional regime. We review both the theory of these atom waveguides and their experimental realizations, with emphasis on the collisions of waveguide-bound particles. Under certain conditions, quasi-one-dimensional gases are well described by integrable one-dimensional many-body models with exact quantum solutions. We review the thermodynamic and correlation properties of one such model that has been experimentally realized, that of Lieb and Liniger. We describe the necessary criteria for integrability and its observable effects. We also consider ways to lift integrability, along with some observable effects of non-integrability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
EditorsEnnio Arimondo, Paul Berman, Chun Lin
Pages61-138
Number of pages78
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008

Publication series

NameAdvances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume55
ISSN (Print)1049-250X

Funding

FundersFunder number
Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics at Harvard
National Science Foundation
Office of Naval ResearchN00014-03-1-0427, NSF-DMR-0240918, NSF-DMR-0312261, NSF-PHY-0301052
Army Research Office

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