Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas

Toshiya Kinoshita; Trevor Wenger; David S. Weiss

doi:10.1126/science.1100700

Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas

Toshiya Kinoshita, Trevor Wenger, David S. Weiss

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We report the observation of a one-dimensional (1D) Tonks-Girardeau (TG) gas of bosons moving freely in 1D. Although TG gas bosons are strongly interacting, they behave very much like noninteracting fermions. We enter the TG regime with cold rubidium-87 atoms by trapping them with a combination of two light traps. By changing the trap intensities, and hence the atomic interaction strength, the atoms can be made to act either like a Bose-Einstein condensate or like a TG gas. We measure the total 1D energy and the length of the gas. With no free parameters and over a wide range of coupling strengths, our data fit the exact solution for the ground state of a 1D Bose gas.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1125-1128
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	305
Issue number	5687
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1100700
State	Published - Aug 20 2004

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