Transition from a Tonks-Girardeau gas to a super-Tonks-Girardeau gas as an exact many-body dynamics problem

Shu Chen*, Liming Guan, Xiangguo Yin, Yajiang Hao, Xi Wen Guan

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    Abstract

    We investigate transition of a one-dimensional interacting Bose gas from a strongly repulsive regime to a strongly attractive regime, where a stable highly excited state known as the super Tonks-Girardeau gas was experimentally realized very recently. By solving exact dynamics of the integrable Lieb-Liniger Bose gas, we demonstrate that such an excited gas state can be a very stable dynamic state. Furthermore we calculate the breathing mode of the super Tonks-Girardeau gas which is found to be in good agreement with experimental observation. Our results show that the highly excited super Tonks-Girardeau gas phase can be well understood from the fundamental theory of the solvable Bose gas.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number031609
    JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
    Volume81
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 25 Mar 2010

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