Detecting the superfluid critical momentum of Bose gases in optical lattices through dipole oscillations

Details Detecting the superfluid critical momentum of Bose gases in optical lattices through dipole oscillations Detecting the superfluid critical momentum of Bose gases in optical lattices through dipole oscillations

2012-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/1203.4890v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

21 pages, 27 figures

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We study stability of superflow of Bose gases in optical lattices by analyzing the Bose-Hubbard model within the Gutzwiller mean-field approximation. We calculate the excitation spectra of the homogeneous Bose-Hubbard model at unit filling to determine the critical momenta for the Landau and dynamical instabilities. These two critical momenta are shown to approach each other when the on-site interaction increases towards the Mott transition point. In order to make a direct connection with realistic experiments, we next take into account a parabolic trapping potential and compute the real-time dynamics of dipole oscillations induced by suddenly displacing the trap center. We consider the following two cases: standard softcore bosons, whose interparticle interactions include the on-site one only, and hardcore bosons with long-range dipole-dipole interactions. For both cases, we show that the dipole oscillation is significantly damped when the maximum local momentum exceeds a certain threshold, which quantitatively agrees with the critical momentum for the dynamical instability in the homogeneous system. In the case of dipolar hardcore bosons, the dynamical instability of dipole oscillations leads to the formation of checkerboard density waves in the superfluid phase near the boundary to the supersolid phase.

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