Feshbach-Einstein condensates
Statistical Mechanics
2009-01-07 v2
Abstract
We investigate the phase diagram of a two-species Bose-Hubbard model describing atoms and molecules on a lattice, interacting via a Feshbach resonance. We identify a region where the system exhibits an exotic super-Mott phase and regions with phases characterized by atomic and/or molecular condensates. Our approach is based on a recently developed exact quantum Monte Carlo algorithm: the Stochastic Green Function algorithm with tunable directionality. We confirm some of the results predicted by mean-field studies, but we also find disagreement with these studies. In particular, we find a phase with an atomic but no molecular condensate, which is missing in all mean-field phase diagrams.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.3763,
title = {Feshbach-Einstein condensates},
author = {Valy G. Rousseau and Peter J. H. Denteneer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3763},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 figures