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Superfluid-Mott Insulator Transition of Spin-1 Bosons in an Optical Lattice

Soft Condensed Matter 2013-05-29 v1

Abstract

We have studied superfluid-Mott insulating transition of spin-1 bosons interacting antiferromagnetically in an optical lattice. We have obtained the zero-temperature phase diagram by a mean-field approximation and have found that the superfluid phase is to be a polar state as a usual trapped spin-1 Bose gas. More interestingly, we have found that the Mott-insulating phase is strongly stabilized only when the number of atoms per site is even.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0209676,
  title  = {Superfluid-Mott Insulator Transition of Spin-1 Bosons in an Optical Lattice},
  author = {Shunji Tsuchiya and Susumu Kurihara and Takashi Kimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0209676},
  year   = {2013}
}

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