Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-09-09
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
9 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.79.043601
We determine the ground-state properties of a gas of interacting bosonic atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice. The system is modelled by the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. We show how to apply the time-evolving block decimation method to systems with periodic boundary conditions, and employ it as a reference to find the ground state of the Bose-Hubbard model. Results are compared with recently proposed approximate methods, such as Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theories generalised for strong interactions and the variational Bijl-Dingle-Jastrow method. We find that all HFB methods do not bring any improvement to the Bogoliubov theory and therefore provide correct results only in the weakly-interacting limit, where the system is deeply in the superfluid regime. On the other hand, the variational Bijl-Dingle-Jastrow method is applicable for much stronger interactions, but is essentially limited to the superfluid regime as it reproduces the superfluid-Mott insulator transition only qualitatively.
Danshita Ippei
Naidon Pascal
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