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Reentrant Phenomenon in Quantum Phase Diagram of Optical Boson Lattice

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We calculate the location of the quantum phase transitions of a bose gas trapped in an optical lattice as a function of effective scattering length a\effa_{\eff} and temperature TT. Knowledge of recent high-loop results on the shift of the critical temperature at weak couplings is used to locate a {\em nose} in the phase diagram above the free Bose-Einstein critical temperature Tc(0)T_c^{(0)}, thus predicting the existence of a reentrant transition {\em above} Tc(0)T_c^{(0)}, where a condensate should form when {\em increasing} a\effa_{\eff}. At zero temperature, the transition to the normal phase produces the experimentally observed Mott insulator.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0307412,
  title  = {Reentrant Phenomenon in Quantum Phase Diagram of Optical Boson Lattice},
  author = {H. Kleinert and S. Schmidt and A. Pelster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0307412},
  year   = {2007}
}

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