Density profile of a Bose-Einstein condensate inside a pancake-shaped trap: Observational consequences of the dimensional cross-over in the scattering properties
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2002
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It is theoretically well known that two-dimensionality of the scattering events in a Bose-Einstein condensate introduces a logarithmic dependence on density in the coupling constant entering a mean-field theory of the equilibrium density profile, which becomes dominant as the s-wave scattering length gets larger than the condensate thickness. We trace the regions of experimentally accessible system parameters for which the cross-over between different dimensionality behaviors in the scattering properties may become observable through in situ imaging of the condensed cloud with varying trap anisotropy and scattering length.
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Physics Letters, Section A : General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
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Elsevier Science B.V.
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