Flat bands, Dirac cones and atom dynamics in an optical lattice

Details Flat bands, Dirac cones and atom dynamics in an optical lattice Flat bands, Dirac cones and atom dynamics in an optical lattice

2010-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/1008.4684v1

Phys. Rev. A82,041402(R) (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

We study atoms trapped with a harmonic confinement in an optical lattice characterized by a flat band and Dirac cones. We show that such an optical lattice can be constructed which can be accurately described with the tight binding or Hubbard models. In the case of fermions the release of the harmonic confinement removes fast atoms occupying the Dirac cones while those occupying the flat band remain immobile. Using exact diagonalization and dynamics we demonstrate that a similar strong occupation of the flat band does not happen in bosonic case and furthermore that the mean field model is not capable for describing the dynamics of the boson cloud.

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