Multi-Particle Correlation Functions in a Trapped Bose Gas

Xiao-Long Lu, Xiangguo Yin, Yunbo Zhang

We consider a strongly interacting one-dimensional (1D) Bose-Fermi mixture confined in a hard-wall trap or a harmonic oscillator trap with a tunable $\ensuremath{\delta}$-function barrier at the trap center. The mixture consists of a 1D Bose gas with repulsive interactions and of a 1D noninteracting spin-aligned Fermi gas, with both species interacting through hard-core interactions. Using a generalized Bose-Fermi mapping, we calculate the reduced single-particle density matrix and the momentum distribution of the gas as a function of barrier strength and the parity of particle number. The secondary peaks in the momentum distribution show remarkable correlation between particles on the two sides of the split.

Anatoli G. Izergin, V. E. Korepin, Nicolai Reshetikhin

David L. Luxat, Adam Griffin

We calculate the static and dynamic single-particle correlation functions in one-dimensional (1D) trapped Bose gases and discuss experimental measurements that can directly probe such correlation functions. Using a quantized hydrodynamic theory for the low-energy excitations, we calculate both the static and dynamic single-particle correlation functions for a 1D Bose gas that is a phase-fluctuating quasicondensate. For the static (equal-time) correlation function, our approximations and results are equivalent to those of Petrov, Shlyapnikov, and Walraven. The Fourier transform of the static single-particle correlation function gives the momentum distribution, which can be measured using Doppler-sensitive Bragg scattering experiments on a highly elongated Bose gas. We show how a two-photon Raman out-coupling experiment can measure the characteristic features of the dynamic or time-dependent single-particle correlation function of a 1D Bose quasicondensate.

R. Walser

N. M. Bogoliubov, Cyril Leonidovich Malyshev, R. Bullough +1 more

We calculate the dynamic single-particle and many-particle correlation functions at nonzero temperature in one-dimensional trapped repulsive Bose gases. These correlation functions decay towards zero for increasing distance, and this decay is governed by a scaling exponent that has a universal expression in terms of observed quantities. This expression is valid in the weak-interaction Gross-Pitaevskii as well as in the strong-interaction Girardeau-Tonks limit, but the observed quantities involved depend on the interaction strength. The confining trap introduces a weak center-of-mass dependence in the scaling exponent. Based on previous exact results for a related untrapped Bose system and the results reported here, we also suggest the proper asymptotic form for the density-density correlation function in the trapped Bose gas as considered here.

N. M. Bogoliubov, R. Bullough, V. S. Kapitonov +2 more