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J Armijo1, T Jacqmin, K V Kheruntsyan
1Laboratoire Charles Fabry, UMR 8501 du CNRS, Institut d'Optique, 91 127 Palaiseau Cedex, France.
Abstract:
We perform measurements of the third moment of atom number fluctuations in small slices of a very elongated weakly interacting degenerate Bose gas. We find a positive skewness of the atom number distribution in the ideal gas regime and a reduced skewness compatible with zero in the quasicondensate regime. For our parameters, the third moment is a thermodynamic quantity whose measurement constitutes a sensitive test of the equation of state, and our results are in agreement with a modified Yang-Yang thermodynamic prediction. Moreover, we show that the measured skewness reveals the presence of true three-body correlations in the system.
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