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Physical Review A

Wave-packet dynamical analysis of ultracold scattering in cylindrical waveguides

Vladimir S. Melezhik, J. I. Kim, Peter Schmelcher

Published Nov 13, 2007• 43 citations
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Abstract

A wave-packet propagation method is developed and applied to investigate the quantum dynamics of scattering processes of identical and distinguishable atoms in harmonic waveguides. The quantum dynamics of the confinement-induced resonances (CIRs) for ultracold collisions of identical particles, $s$-wave CIRs for bosons and $p$-wave CIRs for fermions, is explored in detail. Our multigrid approach allows us to fully take into account the coupling between the center-of-mass (c.m.) and relative motions in the case of distinguishable atoms. The latter includes, in particular, $s$- and $p$-partial-wave mixing, caused by the confining trap, which acts differently on the different atomic species. Specifically, we explore in detail the recently discovered [J. I. Kim, V. S. Melezhik, and P. Schmelcher, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193203 (2006)] dual CIR, which is based on a destructive interference mechanism leading to complete transmission in the waveguide, although the corresponding scattering in free space exhibits strong $s$- and $p$-wave scattering.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.76.053611

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