A Dissipative Tonks-Girardeau Gas of Molecules

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that inelastic interactions can induce strong correlations in many-body systems, exemplified by creating a one-dimensional molecular Tonks-Girardeau gas experimentally, challenging the traditional reliance on elastic interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method of achieving strongly correlated states through inelastic interactions, demonstrated by the experimental realization of a molecular Tonks-Girardeau gas.

Findings

Inelastic interactions can drive strong correlations in many-body systems.

Experimental realization of a one-dimensional molecular Tonks-Girardeau gas.

Challenges the conventional approach relying solely on elastic interactions.

Abstract

Strongly correlated states in many-body systems are traditionally created using elastic interparticle interactions. Here we show that inelastic interactions between particles can also drive a system into the strongly correlated regime. This is shown by an experimental realization of a specific strongly correlated system, namely a one-dimensional molecular Tonks-Girardeau gas.