Ground states of hard-core bosons in one dimensional periodic potentials

Details Ground states of hard-core bosons in one dimensional periodic potentials Ground states of hard-core bosons in one dimensional periodic potentials

2006-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612544v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

6 pages, 6 figures

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With Girardeau's Fermi-Bose mapping, we find the exact ground states of hard-core bosons residing in a one dimensional periodic potential. The analysis of these ground states shows that when the number of bosons $N$ is commensurate with the number of wells $M$ in the periodic potential, the boson system is a Mott insulator whose energy gap, however, is given by the single-particle band gap of the periodic potential; when $N$ is not commensurate with $M$, the system is a metal (not a superfluid). In fact, we argue that there may be no superfluid phase for any one-dimensional boson system in terms of Landau's criterion of superfluidity. The Kronig-Penney potential is used to illustrate our results.

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