Fermi‐Bose mapping for one‐dimensional Bose gases

One‐dimensional Bose gases are considered, interacting either through the hard‐core potentials or through the contact delta potentials. Interest in these gases gained momentum because of the recent experimental realization of quasi‐onedimensional Bose gases in traps with tightly confined radial motion, achieving the Tonks‐Girardeau (TG) regime of strongly interacting atoms. For such gases the Fermi‐Bose mapping of wavefunctions is applicable. The aim of the present communication is to give a brief survey of the problem and to demonstrate the generality of this mapping by emphasizing that: (i) It is valid for nonequilibrium wavefunctions, described by the timedependent Schrödinger equation, not merely for stationary wavefunctions. (ii) It gives the whole spectrum of all excited states, not merely the ground state. (iii) It applies to the Lieb‐Liniger gas with the contact interaction, not merely to the TG gas of impenetrable bosons. (© 2005 by Astro, Ltd. Published exclusively by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)