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Improved variational approach to the two-site Bose-Hubbard model

Quantum Gases 2015-05-30 v1

Abstract

An improved variational ansatz is proposed to capture the most striking properties of the ground state of a slightly biased attractive two-site Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. Our ansatz, albeit its simplicity, is found to capture well the exact properties of the ground state for a wide variety of model parameters, in particular the fragmentation occurring before the formation of cat-like states and also the formation of strongly correlated cat-like states.

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@article{arxiv.1108.4851,
  title  = {Improved variational approach to the two-site Bose-Hubbard model},
  author = {Marina Melé-Messeguer and Bruno Juliá-Díaz and Artur Polls},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.4851},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted for publication in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics

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