Degeneracy of Many-body Quantum States in an Optical Lattice with a Uniform Magnetic Field

Details Degeneracy of Many-body Quantum States in an Optical Lattice with a Uniform Magnetic Field Degeneracy of Many-body Quantum States in an Optical Lattice with a Uniform Magnetic Field

2010-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/1004.0283v3

Physical Review Letters, 105, 155302 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

5 pages, 3 figures, published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.155302

We prove a theorem that shows the degeneracy of many-body states depends on total particle number and flux filling ratio, for particles in a periodic lattice and under a uniform magnetic field. Non-interacting fermions and weakly interacting bosons are given as two examples. For the later case, this phenomena can also be understood in terms of destructive quantum interferences of multiple symmetry related tunneling paths between classical energy minima, which is reminiscent of the spin-parity effect discovered in magnetic molecular cluster. We also show that the quantum ground state of a mesoscopic number of bosons in this system is not a simple mean-field state but a fragmented state even for very weak interactions.

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