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Weakly interacting Bose gas in the one-dimensional limit

arXiv:1012.3048 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.265302

Abstract

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 (transverse oscillator eigenfrequency ) 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 , characteristic for 1d systems. For very low densities the approach to the transverse single particle ground state is linear in .

to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

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