English

Mobile impurities interacting with a few one-dimensional lattice bosons

Quantum Gases 2023-02-06 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We report a comprehensive study of the ground-state properties of one and two bosonic impurities immersed in small one-dimensional optical lattices loaded with a few interacting bosons. We model the system with a two-component Bose-Hubbard model and solve the problem numerically by means of the exact diagonalization (ED) method. We report binding energies of one and two impurities across the superfluid (SF) to Mott-insulator (MI) transition and confirm the formation of two-body bound states of impurities induced by repulsive interactions. In particular, we found that an insulator bath induces tightly bound di-impurity dimers, whereas a superfluid bath induces shallower bound states.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2207.09309,
  title  = {Mobile impurities interacting with a few one-dimensional lattice bosons},
  author = {Vasil R. Yordanov and Felipe Isaule},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.09309},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

23 pages, 13 figures. Accepted version

R2 v1 2026-06-25T01:03:08.818Z