In situ observation of sub-Poissonian atom-number fluctuations in a repulsive 1D Bose gas: quantum quasi-condensate and strongly interacting regimes
Résumé
We report on local measurements of atom number fluctuations in slices of a single 1D Bose gas with repulsive interactions. For weakly interacting gases, the fluctuations are super-Poissonian at intermediate atomic densities and become sub-Poissonian at high densities once the gas enters into the quantum quasi-condensate regime. At stronger interactions, when approaching the fermionization regime, we no longer observe super-Poissonian statistics; the fluctuations go from Poissonian to sub-Poissonian as the density is increased, as those in a Fermi gas.
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