Dynamics in strongly interacting one-dimensional quantum systems
R. E. Barfknecht
Abstract
In this thesis we study the dynamics of one-dimensional strongly interacting few-body systems. We present the theory which allows us to describe such systems as a spin chain where the exchange coefficients are determined by the trapping geometry, and comment on the experimental feasibility of these mod- els. We then proceed to apply our formalism to different dynamical problems, where the strength of the interactions between the atoms in the trap plays a fundamental role. We find that interesting effects - ranging from changes in magnetic correlations to impurity oscillations and spin-charge separation - arise in this context. Additionally, we perform studies of the static corre- lations and many-body dynamics of bosonic systems away from the strongly interacting limit.