arXiv:1012.5156 · Physical Review A
Confinement-induced resonances in quasi-one-dimensional traps with transverse anisotropy
Wei Zhang, Peng Zhang
Abstract
We study atom-atom scattering in quasi-one-dimensional geometries with transverse anisotropy. By assuming an $s$-wave pseudopotential of contact interaction, we show that the system would exhibit a single confinement-induced resonance, where the scattering process degenerates to a total reflection as a one-dimensional gas of impenetrable bosons. For a general form of interaction, we present a formal calculation based on the two-channel model and draw the same qualitative conclusion of only one confinement-induced resonance. Our findings are inconsistent with a recent experiment by Haller et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153203 (2010)], where a splitting of confinement-induced resonances has been observed in an anisotropic quasi-one-dimensional quantum gas of Cs atoms.