This thesis has been aimed at investigating the dynamical properties of one-dimensional gaseous nanowires, realized by trapping ultracold gases in laser-light lattice structures. The project was carried out at the European laboratory LENS in Florence, also with international collaborations. In recent years, one-dimensional systems have attracted great interest in different fields of physics, material science and chemistry, owing to their peculiar features: In this work, probing the response of the system to inelastic light-scattering experiments – Bragg spectroscopy – has allowed to explore the dynamics and the correlations inside these structures and the quantum phase-transition from superfluid to insulator, occurring due to inter-particle interactions.
CNR-INO National Institute of Optics, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0525-0696
Book Title
Bragg spectroscopy of quantum gases: Exploring physics in one dimension
Authors
Nicole Fabbri
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
188
Publication Year
2012
Copyright Information
© 2012 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-221-5
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-220-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-221-5
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-562-0
Series Title
Premio Tesi di Dottorato
Series ISSN
2612-8039
Series E-ISSN
2612-8020