Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2009-05-29
Nature Phys. 6, 998-1004 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
10.1038/nphys1799
Ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices have proven to be a controllable, tunable and clean implementation of strongly interacting quantum many-body systems. An essential prospect for such quantum simulators is their ability to map out the phase diagram of fundamental many-body model Hamiltonians. However, the results need to be validated first for representative benchmark problems via state-of-the-art numerical methods of quantum many-body theory. Here we present the first ab-initio comparison between experiments and quantum Monte Carlo simulations for strongly interacting Bose gases on a lattice for large systems (up to N = 3e5 particles). The comparison has enabled us to perform thermometry for the interacting quantum gas and to experimentally determine the finite temperature phase diagram for bosonic superfluids in an optical lattice. Our results reveal a downshift of the critical temperature as the transition to the Mott insulator is approached.
Bloch Immanuel
Gerbier Fabrice
Pollet Lode
Prokof'ev Nikolai V.
Schnorrberger Ute
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