Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2010-09-07
Phys. Rev. A 83, 013612 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
22 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.83.013612
We consider theoretically the problem of an artificial gauge potential applied to a cold atomic system of interacting neutral bosons in a tight-binding optical lattice. Using the Bose-Hubbard model, we show that an effective magnetic field leads to superfluid phases with simultaneous spatial order, which we analyze using Bogoliubov theory. This gives a consistent expansion in terms of quantum and thermal fluctuations, in which the lowest order gives a Gross-Pitaevskii equation determining the condensate configuration. We apply an analysis based on the magnetic symmetry group to show how the spatial structure of this configuration depends on commensuration between the magnetic field and the lattice. Higher orders describe the quasiparticle excitations, whose spectrum combines the intricacy the Hofstadter butterfly with the characteristic features of the superfluid phase. We use the depletion of the condensate to determine the range of validity of our approximations and also to find an estimate for the onset of the Mott insulator phase. Our theory provides concrete experimental predictions, for both time-of-flight imagery and Bragg spectroscopy.
Barnett Ryan
Powell Stephen
Sarma Sankar Das
Sensarma Rajdeep
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