2023/08/01 by Yanliang Guo, Hepeng Yao, Guo, Yanliang +15
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.00411
openalex publication_date 2023/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Dimensionality plays an essential role in determining the nature and properties of a physical system. For quantum systems the impact of interactions and fluctuations is enhanced in lower dimensions, leading to a great diversity of genuine quantum effects for reduced dimensionality. In most cases, the dimension is fixed to some integer value. Here, we experimentally probe the dimensional crossover from two to one dimension using strongly interacting ultracold bosons in variable lattice potentials and compare the data to ab-initio theory that takes into account non-homogeneous trapping and non-zero temperature. From a precise measurement of the momentum distribution we analyze the characteristic decay of the one-body correlation function in the two dimensionalities and then track how the decay is modified in the crossover. A varying two-slope structure is revealed, reflecting the fact that the particles see their dimensionality as being one or two depending on whether they are probed on short or long distances, respectively. Our observations demonstrate how quantum properties in the strongly-correlated regime evolve in the dimensional crossover as a result of the interplay between dimensionality, interactions, and temperature.