Temperature in One-Dimensional Bosonic Mott insulators
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-11 v2 Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The Mott insulating phase of a one-dimensional bosonic gas trapped in optical lattices is described by a Bose-Hubbard model. A continuous unitary transformation is used to map this model onto an effective model conserving the number of elementary excitations. We obtain quantitative results for the kinetics and for the spectral weights of the low-energy excitations for a broad range of parameters in the insulating phase. By these results, recent Bragg spectroscopy experiments are explained. Evidence for a significant temperature of the order of the microscopic energy scales is found.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0504724,
title = {Temperature in One-Dimensional Bosonic Mott insulators},
author = {A. Reischl and K. P. Schmidt and G. S. Uhrig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0504724},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 7 figures