Abstract
The ground-state properties of artificial bosonic atoms created by optically trapping ultracold particles of alkali-metal vapors were investigated. The impact of the strength of nuclear attraction and interparticle repulsion on the bosonic atoms as well as Bose interaction blockade and single-atom pipette was also discussed. The increase in space dimensionality increased the ability of the short-range potential and in one dimension only a limited number of particles were bound. The dependence of the ground-state energy of the atom on the number of particles was found to be minimum because of the competing nuclear attraction enhanced by the Bose statistics and interparticle repulsions.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 063401 |
| Pages (from-to) | 063401-1-063401-16 |
| Journal | Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - Jun 2004 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are grateful to C. A. Sackett for writing Sec. 8 of the paper and to M. Timmins for his help in preparing the figures. This work was supported by the Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust, and by the Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics