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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 9: Quantum Liquids, Miscellaneous 1
TT 9.13: Talk
Monday, March 11, 2013, 12:45–13:00, H21
Utilizing nonequilibrium effects to probe the Mott-insulator-superfluid transition of a trapped gas of interacting bosons — •Lev Vidmar1, Stephan Langer2, Ian McCulloch3, Ulrich Schollwöck1, Ulrich Schneider1,4, and Fabian Heidrich-Meisner1,5 — 1LMU Munich, Germany — 2University of Pittsburgh, USA — 3University of Queensland, Australia — 4MPQ Garching, Germany — 5FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
An increased effort has been lately devoted to explore and establish the possible links between equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of interacting quantum many-body systems. Recent experiments on optical lattices have shown the possibility of measuring the expansion velocity of an initially trapped system, which after the sudden release of the trap expands in an empty lattice [1]. Recent theoretical studies of interacting fermions indicated that the measurement of expansion velocity may provide information about the initial state [2]. In our work, we show that measuring the expansion velocity of an initially trapped gas of interacting bosons allows one to distinguish between a superfluid and a Mott insulating state in the initial ground state in 1D. We perform time-dependent DMRG calculations of the Bose-Hubbard model in a harmonic trap and a box trap. We derive a state diagram of a trapped system as a function of on-site repulsion and density from the expansion velocity. The resulting diagram is consistent with the state diagram obtained by measuring equilibrium properties such as local density fluctuations and on-site compressibility [3].
[1] Nat. Phys. 8, 213 (2012)
PRA 85, 043618 (2012)
PRA 79, 053605 (2009)