Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2006-10-07
Phys. Rev. A 76, 033606 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
Corrected dimer energy & references
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.033606
Repulsively interacting particles in a periodic potential can form bound composite objects, whose dissociation is suppressed by a band gap. Nearly pure samples of such repulsively bound pairs of cold atoms -- "dimers" -- have recently been prepared by Winkler et al. [Nature 441, 853 (2006)]. We here derive an effective Hamiltonian for a lattice loaded with dimers only and discuss its implications to the many-body dynamics of the system. We find that the dimer-dimer interaction includes strong on-site repulsion and nearest-neighbor attraction which always dominates over the dimer kinetic energy at low temperatures. The dimers then form incompressible, minimal-surface "droplets" of a quantum lattice liquid. For low lattice filling, the effective Hamiltonian can be mapped onto the spin-1/2 XXZ model with fixed total magnetization which exhibits a first-order phase transition from the "droplet" to a "gas" phase. This opens the door to studying first order phase transitions using highly controllable ultracold atoms.
Anglin James R.
Fleischhauer Michael
Petrosyan David
Schmidt Bernd
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