Session K4: Atom Optics, Atom Interferometry, and Cavity QED

10:30 AM–12:42 PM, Friday, May 20, 2005
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Hawthorne

Chair: L. A. Orozco, University of Maryland

Abstract: K4.00008 : Many-body bound states in waveguide bends

11:54 AM–12:06 PM

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Authors:

  R Cabrera-Trujillo
  B.D. Esry
  M.W.J. Bromley
    (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506)

It is well known that a particle can be bound in the bend of a waveguide. We will present the results of calculations exploring whether many particles can be similarly bound when the interparticle interactions are included in a mean field approximation. In particular, we calculate the maximum number of atoms that can be bound as a function of the scattering length for various bend parameters. Possible consequences for matter wave propagation through the bend will be discussed.