Variational ansatz for the superfluid mott-insulator transition in optical lattices

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 42-54

  Garcia Ripoll J J ^a   Cirac, J I ^a   Zoller, P ^b   Kollath, C ^c   Schollwock U ^c   Von Delft, J ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

MOTT INSULATOR TRANSITION; ONE DIMENSIONAL BOSONIC LATTICE GAS; OPTICAL LATTICES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 2942733485     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000042     Document Type: Article

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