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Quantum Phases of Bosons in Double-Well Optical Lattices

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Author(s)

Ippei Danshita, J G. Williams, Carlos Sa de Melo, Charles W. Clark

Abstract

We study the superfluid to Mott insulator transition of bosons in a two-legged ladder optical lattice, of a type accessible in current experiments on double-well optical lattices. The zero-temperature phase diagram is mapped out, with a focus on its dependence upon interchain hopping and the tilt between double wells. We find that the unit-filling Mott phase exhibits a non-monotonic behavior as a function of the tilt parameter, producing a reentrant phase transition between Mott insulator and superfluid phases.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
76
Issue
043606
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

optical lattice, quantum phase transition, time-evolving block decimation

Citation

Danshita, I. , Williams, J. , Sa, C. and Clark, C. (2007), Quantum Phases of Bosons in Double-Well Optical Lattices, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=840262 (Accessed October 22, 2025)

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Created October 4, 2007, Updated February 17, 2017
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