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A: Fachverband Atomphysik

A 36: Ultra-cold atoms, ions and BEC IV (with Q)

A 36.8: Talk

Thursday, March 3, 2016, 16:15–16:30, f303

Dimensional phase transition from 1D behavior to a 3D Bose-Einstein condensate — Denis Morath, •Dominik Strassel, Axel Pelster, and Sebastian Eggert — Department of Physics and Research Center Optimas, University Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

The emergence of new properties from low-dimensional building blocks is a universal theme in different areas in physics. The investigation of transitions between isolated and coupled low-dimensional systems promises to reveal new phenomena and exotic phases. Interacting 1D bosons, which are coupled in a two-dimensional array, are maybe the most fundamental example of a system which illustrates the concept of a dimensional phase transition. However, recent experiments using ultracold gases have shown a surprising discrepancy between theory and experiment [1] and it is far from obvious if the power laws from the underlying 1D theory can predict the transition temperature and order parameter correctly for all interaction strengths. Using a combination of large-scale Quantum Monte-Carlo simulations and chain mean-field calculations, we show that the behavior of the ordering temperature as a function of inter-chain coupling strength does not follow a universal powerlaw, but also depends strongly on the filling.

[1] A. Vogler, R. Labouvie, G. Barontini, S. Eggert, V. Guarrera, and H. Ott, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215301 (2014)