Interference of a Tonks-Girardeau Gas on a Ring

Kunal K. Das, G. John Lapeyre, Ewan M. Wright

Published 2002-02-11Version 1

We study the quantum dynamics of a one-dimensional gas of impenetrable bosons on a ring, and investigate the interference that results when an initially trapped gas localized on one side of the ring is released, split via an optical-dipole grating, and recombined on the other side of the ring. Large visibility interference fringes arise when the wavevector of the optical dipole grating is larger than the effective Fermi wavevector of the initial gas.