Creating a supersolid in one-dimensional Bose mixtures
Creating a supersolid in one-dimensional Bose mixtures
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DOI:
10.1103/physreva.79.011602
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发表时间:
2008-06
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
L. Mathey;I. Danshita;C. Clark
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作者:
L. Mathey;I. Danshita;C. Clark
We identify a one-dimensional supersolid phase in a binary mixture of near-hardcore bosons with weak, local interspecies repulsion. We find realistic conditions under which such a phase, defined here as the coexistence of quasi-superfluidity and quasi-charge density wave order, can be produced and observed in finite ultra-cold atom systems in a harmonic trap. Our analysis is based on Luttinger liquid theory supported with numerical calculations using the time-evolving block decimation method. Clear experimental signatures of these two orders can be found, respectively, in time-of-flight interference patterns, and the structure factor S(k) derived from density correlations. sufficiently weak. We study the SS phase with analytical and numerical techniques, and present a concrete proposal for its real- ization in current experimental systems. First we use a Luttinger liquid (LL) approach to derive the phase dia- gram of the homogeneous, infinite system, with a renor- malization group (RG) calculation. We then address the question of realizing such a phase under realistic condi- tions, for a finite system of ∼ 10 2 lattice sites in a har- monic trap. Using a number-conserving time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) method (15) we numerically determine, with a well-controlled error, the ground state of the system from which we extract various correlation functions. We first identify the SS phase, through signa- tures in the pair and anti-pair correlations. Other cor- relations contain information that is accessible to direct experimental observation, and we discuss possible exper- imental signatures of the SS phase, i.e. the coexistence of SF and CDW order; the SF order is manifest in the single-particle correlation function, which can be deter- mined from time-of-flight (TOF) interference patterns; the CDW order is seen in density-density correlations, which is reflected in a measurable structure factor. We consider a mixture of two species of bosonic atoms with short-range interparticle interactions, confined in a 1D optical lattice and an additional harmonic potential. Contemporary experimental realizations of such systems are usually well approximated by a Hubbard model: