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Frustrated quantum antiferromagnetism with ultracold bosons in a triangular lattice

Quantum Gases 2010-01-25 v3 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We propose to realize the anisotropic triangular-lattice Bose-Hubbard model with positive tunneling matrix elements by using ultracold atoms in an optical lattice dressed by a fast lattice oscillation. This model exhibits frustrated antiferromagnetism at experimentally feasible temperatures; it interpolates between a classical rotor model for weak interaction, and a quantum spin-1/2 XYXY-model in the limit of hard-core bosons. This allows to explore experimentally gapped spin liquid phases predicted recently [Schmied et al., New J. Phys. {\bf 10}, 045017 (2008)].

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@article{arxiv.0907.0423,
  title  = {Frustrated quantum antiferromagnetism with ultracold bosons in a triangular lattice},
  author = {Andre Eckardt and Philipp Hauke and Parvis Soltan-Panahi and Christoph Becker and Klaus Sengstock and Maciej Lewenstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0423},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages, as published in EPL