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Astrakharchik and colleagues modeled a strongly correlated, gas-like excited state of one-dimensional bosons with attractive interactions. A variational wavefunction and numerical estimates suggested a hard-rod-like equation of state at low density and predicted changes in collective behavior.
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Astrakharchik and colleagues modeled a strongly correlated, gas-like excited state of one-dimensional bosons with attractive interactions. A variational wavefunction and numerical estimates suggested a hard-rod-like equation of state at low density and predicted changes in collective behavior. The 2004 preprint describes a model and numerical prediction, not an experimental realization or a general proof of stability. Its results rely on a trial wavefunction, finite samples and approximations for trapped gases; the lower-energy clustered state remains distinct. The later experimental result has a different team.
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The linked original works support the scoped statement and contribution attribution. WRS has not independently replayed experiments or reconstructed a full mathematical proof. The 2004 preprint describes a model and numerical prediction, not an experimental realization or a general proof of stability. Its results rely on a trial wavefunction, finite samples and approximations for trapped gases; the lower-energy clustered state remains distinct. The later experimental result has a different team.
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- Beyond Tonks-Girardeau: strongly correlated regime in quasi-one-dimensional Bose gases
- Beyond the Tonks-Girardeau Gas: Strongly Correlated Regime in Quasi-One-Dimensional Bose Gases
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