Tuesday, January 8, 2013

1301.0846 (Marek Tylutki et al.)

Dynamics of the Mott Insulator to Superfluid quantum phase transition in
the truncated Wigner approximation
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Marek Tylutki, Jacek Dziarmaga, Wojciech H. Zurek
The quantum phase transition from the Mott insulator state to the superfluid in the Bose-Hubbard model is investigated. We research one, two and three dimensional lattices in the truncated Wigner approximation. We compute both kinetic and potential energy and they turn out to have a power law behaviour as a function of the transition rate, with the power equal to 1/3. The same applies to the total energy in a system with a harmonic trap, which is usually present in the experimental set-up. These observations are in agreement with the experiment of [8], where such scalings were also observed and the power of the decay was numerically close to 1/3. The results confirm the Kibble-Zurek (adiabatic-impulse-adiabatic approximation) scenario for this transition.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0846

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