Mapping of Coulomb gases and sine-Gordon models to statistics of random surfaces

Abstract

We introduce a new class of sine-Gordon models, for which the interaction term is present in a region different from the domain over which the quadratic part is defined. We develop a nonperturbative approach for calculating partition functions of such models, which relies on mapping them to statistical properties of random surfaces. As a specific application of our method, we consider the problem of calculating the amplitude of interference fringes in experiments with two independent low dimensional Bose gases. We calculate full distribution functions of interference amplitude for one-dimensional and two-dimensional gases with nonzero temperatures.