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Quasi-one dimensional degenerate Bose gas

Soft Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Motivated by the MIT experiment [Gorlitz {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 87}, 130402 (2001)], we analytically study the effect of density and phase fluctuations on various observables in a quasi one-dimensional degenerate Bose gases. Quantizing the Gross-Pitaevskii Hamiltonian and diagonalize it in terms of the normal modes associated with the density and phase fluctuations of a quasi-one dimensional Bose gas. We calculate dynamic structure factor S(q,ω)S(q,\omega) from low-energy condensate density fluctuations and find that there are multiple peaks in S(q,ω)S(q,\omega) for a given momentum qq due to the discrete energy spectrum. These multiple peaks can be resolved by a two-photon Bragg pulse with a long duration which transfer the momentum to the system. We calculate the momentum transferred Pz(t) P_z(t) by using the phase-density representation of the Bose order parameter. We also calculate the single-particle density matrix, phase coherence length, and momentum distribution by taking care of the phase fluctuations upto fourth-order term as well as the density fluctuations. Our studies on coherence properties shows that 1D Bose gases of MIT experiment do not form a true condensate, but it can be obtained by a moderate changes of the current experimental parameters.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402079,
  title  = {Quasi-one dimensional degenerate Bose gas},
  author = {Tarun Kanti Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402079},
  year   = {2007}
}

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8 pages, 10 figures