Session X32: Quasi-One-Dimensional Quantum Gases
8:00 AM–10:36 AM, Friday, March 9, 2007
Colorado Convention Center Room: 402
Sponsoring Unit:
DAMOP
Chair: Ana Maria Rey, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/ITAMP
Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.MAR.X32.6
Abstract: X32.00006 : Full distribution functions of interference contrast in low-dimensional bose gases
9:00 AM–9:12 AM
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Authors:
Adilet Imambekov
(Harvard University, Physics Department)
Vladimir Gritsev
(Harvard University, Physics Department)
Eugene Demler
(Harvard University, Physics Department)
We consider interference experiments with two independent low dimensional bose condensates. Full distribution function of fringe visibilities is determined by higher order correlation functions within individual condensates and contains non trivial information about quantum and thermal fluctuations in the system. We develop a general method for calculating distribution functions of the interference amplitude and apply it to one and two dimensional condensates both at zero and finite temperatures.
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