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Interatomic collisions in a tightly confined Bose gas

arXiv:cond-mat/0012091 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.64.012706

Abstract

We discuss pair interatomic collisions in a Bose gas tightly confined in one (axial) direction and identify two regimes of scattering. In the quasi2D regime, where the confinement frequency greatly exceeds the gas temperature , the scattering rates exhibit 2D features of the particle motion. At temperatures one has a confinement-dominated 3D regime, where the confinement can change the momentum dependence of the scattering amplitudes. We describe the collision-induced energy exchange between the axial and radial degrees of freedom and analyze recent experiments on thermalization and spin relaxation rates in a tightly (axially) confined gas of Cs atoms.

14 pages, 8 figures, revtex

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