Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2004-03-31
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
24 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
We review the nature of superfluid ground states and the universality of their properties with emphasis to Bose Einstein Condensate systems in atomic physics. We then study the superfluid Mott transition in such systems. We find that there could be two types of Mott transitions and phases. One of them was described long ago and corresponds to suppression of Josephson tunneling within superfluids sitting at each well. On the other hand, the conditions of optical lattice BEC experiments are such that either the coherence length is longer than the interwell separation, or there is too small a number of bosons per well. This vitiates the existence of a superfluid order parameter within a well, and therefore of Josephson tunneling between wells. Under such conditions, there is a transition to a Mott phase which corresponds to suppression of individual boson tunneling among wells. This last transition is in general discontinuous and can happen for incommensurate values of bosons per site. If the coherence length is small enough and the number of bosons per site large enough, the transition studied in the earlier work will happen.
Nazario Zaira
Santiago David I.
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