Local relaxation and light-cone-like propagation of correlations in a trapped one-dimensional Bose gas

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Geiger, R ^a,c   Langen, T ^a   Mazets, I E ^a,b   Schmiedmayer, J ^a  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

manybody physics; non equilibrium dynamics; quantum gases; thermalization

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS; RESEARCH;

CHARACTERISTIC VELOCITIES; FINITE-SIZE SYSTEMS; HARMONIC APPROXIMATION; MANY-BODY; NON-EQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS; QUANTUM GAS; RELAXATION DYNAMICS; THERMALIZATION;

BOSONS;

EID: 84901714997     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/5/053034     Document Type: Article

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