Mott Domains of Bosons Confined on Optical Lattices

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2002-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203082v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 117203 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.117203

In the absence of a confining potential, the boson Hubbard model in its ground state is known to exhibit a superfluid to Mott insulator quantum phase transition at commensurate fillings and strong on-site repulsion. In this paper, we use quantum Monte Carlo simulations to study the ground state of the one dimensional bosonic Hubbard model in a trap. We show that some, but not all, aspects of the Mott insulating phase persist when a confining potential is present. The Mott behavior is present for a continuous range of incommensurate fillings, a very different situation from the unconfined case. Furthermore the establishment of the Mott phase does not proceed via a quantum phase transition in the traditional sense. These observations have important implications for the interpretation of experimental results for atoms trapped on optical lattices. Initial results show that, qualitatively, the same results persist in higher dimensions.

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