Analytical solutions for the dynamics of two trapped interacting ultracold atoms

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作者
Idziaszek, Zbigniew [1 ]
Calarco, Tommaso
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[1] CNR, INFM, BEC Ctr, I-38050 Povo, TN, Italy
[2] Polish Acad Sci, Ctr Fiz Teoretycznej, PL-02668 Warsaw, Poland
[3] ECT, I-38050 Villazzano, TN, Italy
[4] Harvard Univ, ITAMP, Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[5] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2006年 / 74卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.74.022712
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We discuss exact solutions of the Schrodinger equation for the system of two ultracold atoms confined in an axially symmetric harmonic potential. We investigate different geometries of the trapping potential, in particular we study the properties of eigenenergies and eigenfunctions for quasi-one-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional traps. We show that the quasi-one-dimensional and the quasi-two-dimensional regimes for two atoms can be already realized in the traps with moderately large (or small) ratios of the trapping frequencies in the axial and the transverse directions. Finally, we apply our theory to Feshbach resonances for trapped atoms. Introducing in our description an energy-dependent scattering length we calculate analytically the eigenenergies for two trapped atoms in the presence of a Feshbach resonance.
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