title: Sub-Poissonian fluctuations in a 1D Bose gas: from the quantum quasicondensate to the strongly interacting regime.
abstract: We report on local, in situ measurements of atom number fluctuations in slices of a one-dimensional Bose gas on an atom chip setup. By using current modulation techniques to prevent cloud fragmentation, we are able to probe the crossover from weak to strong interactions. For weak interactions, fluctuations go continuously from super- to sub-Poissonian as the density is increased, which is a signature of the transition between the subregimes where the two-body correlation function is dominated, respectively, by thermal and quantum contributions. At stronger interactions, the super-Poissonian region disappears, and the fluctuations go directly from Poissonian to sub-Poissonian, as expected for a "fermionized" gas.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique, UMR8501 du CNRS, Palaiseau, France.
authors.forename: Thibaut
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jacqmin
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Armijo
authors.forename: Tarik
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Berrada
authors.forename: Karen V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Kheruntsyan
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bouchoule