arXiv · 1505.04675
Momentum-space correlations of a one-dimensional Bose gas
Abstract
Analyzing the noise in the momentum profiles of single realizations of one-dimensional Bose gases, we present the experimental measurement of the full momentum-space density correlations $\langle \delta n_p \delta n_{p'}\rangle$, which are related to the two-body momentum correlation function. Our data span the weakly interacting region of the phase diagram, going from the the ideal Bose gas regime to the quasicondensate regime. We show experimentally that the bunching phenomenon, which manifests itself as super-Poissonian local fluctuations in momentum space, is present in all regimes. The quasicondensate regime is however characterized by the presence of negative correlations between different momenta, in contrast to Bogolyubov theory for Bose condensates, predicting positive correlations between opposite momenta. Our data are in good agreement with {\it ab-initio} calculations.
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Bess Fang, Aisling Johnson, Tommaso Roscilde, Isabelle Bouchoule. 2015-05-18. Momentum-space correlations of a one-dimensional Bose gas. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.116.050402
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