Two-leg ladder Bose Hubbard models with staggered fluxes
Quantum Gases
2018-12-12 v1
Abstract
We investigate the ground state properties of ultracold atoms trapped in a two-leg ladder potential in the presence of an artificial magnetic field in a staggered configuration. We focus on the strongly interacting regime and use the Landau theory of phase transitions and a mean field Gutzwiller variational method to identify the stable superfluid phases and their boundaries with the Mott-insulator regime as a function of magnetic flux. In addition, we calculate the local and chiral currents of these superfluid phases, which show a staggered vortex anti-vortex configuration. The analytical results are confirmed by numerical simulations using a cluster mean-field theory approach.
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@article{arxiv.1808.05348,
title = {Two-leg ladder Bose Hubbard models with staggered fluxes},
author = {Rashi Sachdeva and Friederike Metz and Manpreet Singh and Tapan Mishra and Thomas Busch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05348},
year = {2018}
}
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9 pages, 7 figures