Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-10-19
Phys. Rev. A 85, 023638 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
11 pages, 8 figures, Sec. V is added
Scientific paper
We study the decay of superflow of a one-dimensional (1D) superfluid in the presence of a periodic potential. In 1D, superflow at zero temperature can decay via quantum nucleation of phase slips even when the flow velocity is much smaller than the critical velocity predicted by mean-field theories. Applying the instanton method to the O(2) quantum rotor model, we calculate the nucleation rate of quantum phase slips $\Gamma$. When the flow momentum $p$ is small, we find that the nucleation rate per unit length increases algebraically with $p$ as $\Gamma/L \propto p^{2K-2}$, where $L$ is the system size and $K$ is the Tomonaga-Luttinger parameter. Based on the relation between the nucleation rate and the quantum superfluid-insulator transition, we present a unified explanation on the scaling formulae of the nucleation rate for periodic, disorder, and single-barrier potentials. Using the time-evolving block decimation method, we compute the exact quantum dynamics of the superflow decay in the 1D Bose-Hubbard model at unit filling. From the numerical analyses, we show that the scaling formula is valid for the case of the Bose-Hubbard model, which can quantitatively describe Bose gases in optical lattices.
Danshita Ippei
Polkovnikov Anatoli
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