Published July 1, 2005 | Version v1
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Static and Dynamic Properties of Trapped Fermionic Tonks-Girardeau Gases

  • 1. College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (United States)

Description

We investigate some static and dynamic properties of harmonically trapped fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gases in tight de Broglie waveguides with attractive p-wave interactions induced by a Feshbach resonance. An exact solution for the one-body density matrix is analyzed in terms of its natural orbitals, with the surprising result that for odd, but not for even, numbers of fermions the maximally occupied orbital coincides with the ground harmonic oscillator orbital. A dynamical consequence of this is that when the interactions are turned off the on-axis density remains a maximum for an odd number of fermions, whereas a minimum develops for an even number

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
95
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 010406-010406.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37012323
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
DENSITY MATRIX; EXACT SOLUTIONS; FERMI GAS; FERMIONS; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; P WAVES; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RESONANCE; SPIN; TRAPPING; WAVEGUIDES
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATRICES; MECHANICS; PARTIAL WAVES; PARTICLE PROPERTIES

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