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Deconfinement in a 2D optical lattice of coupled 1D boson systems

Soft Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We show that a two-dimensional (2D) array of 1D interacting boson tubes has a deconfinement transition between a 1D Mott insulator and a 3D superfluid for commensurate fillings and a dimensional crossover for the incommensurate case. We determine the phase diagram and excitations of this system and discuss the consequences for Bose condensates loaded in 2D optical lattices.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0310382,
  title  = {Deconfinement in a 2D optical lattice of coupled 1D boson systems},
  author = {A. F. Ho and M. A. Cazalilla and T. Giamarchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0310382},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 fig. Revision: simplified presentation of results