Anomalous frequency shifts in a one-dimensional trapped Bose gas

Abstract: We consider a system of interacting bosons in one dimension at a two-body resonance. This system, which is weakly interacting, is known to give rise to effective three-particle interactions, whose dynamics is similar to that of a two-dimensional Bose gas with two-body interactions, and exhibits an identical scale anomaly. We consider the experimentally relevant scenario of a harmonically trapped system. We solve the three-body problem exactly and evaluate the shifts in the frequency of the lowest compressional mode with respect to the dipole mode, and find that the effect of the anomaly is to increase the mode's frequency. We also consider the weak-coupling regime of the trapped many-boson problem and find, within the local density approximation, that the frequency of the lowest compressional mode is also shifted upwards in this limit. Moreover, the anomalous frequency shifts are enhanced by the higher particle number to values that should be observable experimentally.