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arXiv:0802.1701 · Physical Review Letters

Breakdown of Integrability in a Quasi-1D Ultracold Bosonic Gas

I. E. Mazets, Thorsten Schumm, Jörg Schmiedmayer

Published May 30, 2008• 121 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate that virtual excitations of higher radial modes in an atomic Bose gas in a tightly confining waveguide result in effective three-body collisions that violate integrability in this quasi-one-dimensional quantum system and give rise to thermalization. The estimated thermalization rates are consistent with recent experimental results in quasi-1D dynamics of ultracold atoms.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.100.210403

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