Interacting fermions in highly elongated harmonic traps.
Quasi-one-dimensional two-component Fermi gases with effectively attractive and repulsive interactions are characterized for arbitrary interaction strength. The ground-state properties of the gas confined in highly elongated harmonic traps are determined within the local density approximation. For strong attractive effective interactions the existence of a molecular Tonks-Girardeau gas is predicted. The frequency of the lowest breathing mode is calculated as a function of the coupling strength for both attractive and repulsive interactions.
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento and BEC-INFM, I-38050 Povo, Italy.
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