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PHYSICAL REVIEW X
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.12.041032
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- FQXI program
- Austrian Science Fund
- Wiener Wissenschafts- und Technologie fonds [MA16-066]
- Erwin Schroedinger Quantum Science and Technology Fellowship through the European Union [801110]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PD/BD/128641/2017]
- Max Kade Foundation
- European Union [888707]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [888707] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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The relationship between many-body interactions and dimensionality is crucial for understanding emergent quantum phenomena. This study shows that one-dimensional physics can persist into the dimensional crossover towards three-dimensions more significantly than expected. The dominant relaxation mechanism in this system is identified as the one-dimensional dephasing of collective excitations, and it remains dominant even at temperatures exceeding conventional limits of one-dimensionality. The observations suggest that one-dimensional physics is less fragile than previously thought, as it can persist even in the presence of significant perturbations.
The relationship between many-body interactions and dimensionality is integral to numerous emergent quantum phenomena. A striking example is the Bose gas, which upon confinement to one dimension (1D) obeys an infinite set of conservation laws, prohibiting thermalization and constraining dynamics. In our experiment, we demonstrate that such a 1D behavior can extend much further into the dimensional crossover toward 3D than expected. Starting from a weakly interacting Bose gas trapped in a highly elongated potential, we perform a quench to instigate the dynamics of a single density mode. Employing the theory of generalized hydrodynamics, we identify the dominant relaxation mechanism as the 1D dephasing of the relevant collective excitations of the system, the rapidities. Surprisingly, the dephasing remains dominant even for temperatures far exceeding conventional limits of one dimensionality where thermalization should occur. We attribute our observations to an emergent Pauli blocking of transverse excitations caused by the rapidities assuming fermionic statistics, despite the gas being purely bosonic. Thus, our study suggests that 1D physics is less fragile than previously thought, as it can persist even in the presence of significant perturbations. More broadly, by employing the exact Bethe ansatz solutions of the many-body system, we facilitate an interpretation of how the emergent macroscopic behavior arises from the microscopic interactions.
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