Correlated States in Optical Lattices
Fei Zhou (PITP,UBC) Feb. 1, 2004
At Asian Center, UBC
Outline
S=0 bosons (Recent experiments)
S=1 bosons1) Polar condensates2) Mott states (Spin singlet and nematic Mott states)3) Low dimensional Mott states (Dimerized valence bond crystals)4) Spin singlet condensates or superfluid
Approach: Constrained quantum rotor model ( O(2), O(3) rotors and a constraint on an inversion or an Ising constraint)
Optical lattices
S=1/2 Fermions in optical lattices
(small hopping limit)
Neel OrderedGapless Spin liquid HTcS made of cold atoms?
S=0 bosons in lattices
In (a) and (b), one boson per site. t is the hopping and can be varied by tuning laser intensities of optical lattices; U is an intra-site interaction energy. In a Mott state, all bosons are localized.
M. P. A. Fisher et al., PRB 40, 546 (1989);On Mott states in a finite trap, seeJaksch et al., PRL. 81, 3108-3111(1998).
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Mott states ( t << U)
Condensates (t >>U)
3D real space imagine of a condensate released from a lattice (TOF)
Greiner et al., Nature 415, 41(2002)
Absorption images of interference patterns
as the laser intensity is increased (from a to h). (a-d) BECs and (g-h) Mott insulating states.
Probing excitationsIn (c-f), width of interference peaks versus perturbations.
(c-d) BECs and (e-f) Mott insulators
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S=1 bosons with anti-ferromagnetic interactions
in optical lattices (3D and 2D, N=2k)
Polar BEC (a)
Nematic MI (b)
Spin Singlet MI (c)
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Each site is characterized by two unit vectors, blue and red ones. a) Polar BECs (pBEC); b) Nematic mott insulators (NMI); c) Spin singlet mott insulators (SSMI).
Ordering in states present in 3d ,2d lattices
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Each pair of blue and red dots is a spin singlet. S=2,4 ,6….(in a) or S=3,5,… (in b) spin excitations can be created by breaking singlets.
Numerics I: Large N=2k limit
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The energy Vs.
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NMI
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Phase diagrams in high dimensions
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Spin singlet quantum “condensates” in 1D optical lattices (SSQC)
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Spin one bosons in optical lattices
Work in progress
• Towards fault tolerant quantum information storage
We have found
1) Half vortices in condensates
2) Nematic Mott insulators and spin singlet Mott insulators
3) Valence bond crystals (N=2k+1,1D)
4) Spin singlet condensates (1D)
References
Zhou, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 080401(2001).Zhou, Int. Jour. Mod. Phys. B 17, 2643(2003).
Demler and Zhou, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88,163001(2002).Snoek and Zhou, cond-mat/0306198 (to appear in PRB).Imambekov et al., PRA. 68, 063602 (2003).
Zhou, Euro. Phys. Lett. 63 (4), 505(2003).Zhou and Snoek, Ann. Phys. 309(2), 692(2003). Constrained quantum rotor models 1) Quantum dimers, or compact gauge theories, 2) The bilinear-biqudartic spin model (S=1),3) and fractionalization of atoms etc.
Hopping of S=1 Bosons
a) and d) SSMI states for even and
odd numbers of atoms.b) A kink-like S=0, Q=1 excitation
in an “odd” lattice.e) A string-like Q=1 excitation in
an “even” lattice.c) Hopping in an “odd” lattice
leads to kink-anti kink excitations.
f) In an “even” lattice hopping is suppressed because of a string of valence bonds between particle and hole excitations. Red dots are “charged”.
Excitations in 1D Mott insulators
a)S=1, Q=0; b) S=0, Q=-1 for N=2k+1; c) S=0, Q=-2; d) Q=-1 for N=2k.
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