2006/10/31 by J. I. Kim, Vladimir S. Melezhik, V. S. Melezhik +2 · 62 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Scattering #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.97.193203
published in Physical Review Letters 97(19), 193203 (American Physical Society) · 3 figs, Phys. Rev. Lett. (early November issue)
arxiv created 2006/10/31 · openalex publication_date 2006/11/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We demonstrate that scattering of particles strongly interacting in three dimensions (3D) can be suppressed at low energies in a quasi-one-dimensional (1D) confinement. The underlying mechanism is the interference of the s- and p-wave scattering contributions with large s- and p-wave 3D scattering lengths being a necessary prerequisite. This low-dimensional quantum scattering effect might be useful in "interacting" quasi-1D ultracold atomic gases, guided atom interferometry, and impurity scattering in strongly confined quantum wire-based electronic devices.