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Dynamics of correlations in a quasi-2D dipolar Bose gas following a quantum quench

Quantum Gases 2014-10-20 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the evolution of correlations in a quasi-2D dipolar gas driven out-of-equilibrium by a sudden ramp of the interaction strength. For sufficiently strong ramps, the momentum distribution, excited fraction and density-density correlation function all display pronounced features that are directly related to the appearance of a roton minimum in the underlying spectrum. Our study suggests that the evolution of correlations following a quench can be used as a probe of roton-like excitations in a dipolar gas. We also find that the build up of density-density correlations following a quench occurs much more slowly in the dipolar gas compared to a non-dipolar gas, owing to the long-range interactions.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0735,
  title  = {Dynamics of correlations in a quasi-2D dipolar Bose gas following a quantum quench},
  author = {Stefan S. Natu and L. Campanello and S. Das Sarma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0735},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures. Expanded to include self-consistent Bogoliubov ansatz. Significance of results to experiments discussed