Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2009-05-08
Phys. Rev. A 81, 043603 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
16 pages, 24 figures. This is an improvement of the previous version in which we consider the presence of pair-tunneling in th
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043603
The effect of strongly repulsive interactions on the tunneling amplitude of hard-sphere (HS) bosons confined in a simple cubic (sc) optical lattice plus tight external harmonic confinement in continuous space is investigated. The quantum variational Monte Carlo (VMC) and the variational path integral Monte Carlo (VPI) techniques are used at zero temperature. The effects of the lattice spacing $\pi/k$ on the tunneling amplitude is also considered. The occupancies of the lattice sites as a function of the repulsion between the bosons are further revealed. Our chief result is, that for a small number of bosons (N=8) the overlap of the wave functions in neighboring wells does not change with an increase of the repulsive interactions and changes only minimally for a larger number of particles (N=40). The tunneling amplitude rises with a reduction in the lattice spacing. In addition, the occupancy of the center of the trap decreases in favor of a rise in the occupancy of the lattice sites at the edges of the trap with increasing HS repulsion. Further, it was found that the energy per particle at certain optical depths is insensitive to the number of particles and variations in the HS diameter of the bosons. In order to support our results, we compare the VMC results with corresponding VPI results.
DuBois Jonathan L.
Sakhel Asaad R.
Sakhel Roger R.
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