Dimer of two bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice

Details Dimer of two bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice Dimer of two bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice

2010-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5118v2

Phys. Rev. A 81, 043609 (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

This version is very close to the published version. 14 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043609

We investigate theoretically the stationary states of two bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice within the Bose-Hubbard model. Starting from a finite lattice with periodic boundary conditions, we effect a partial separation of the center-of-mass and relative motions of the two-atom lattice dimer in the lattice momentum representation, and carefully analyze the eigenstates of the relative motion. In the limit when the lattice becomes infinitely long, we find closed-form analytic expressions for both the bound state and the dissociated states of the lattice dimer. We outline the corresponding analysis in the position representation. The results are used to discuss three ways to detect the dimer: by measuring the momentum distribution of the atoms, by finding the size of the molecule with measurements of atom number correlations at two lattice sites, and by dissociating a bound state of the lattice dimer with a modulation of the lattice depth.

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