Influence of the trap shape on the detection of the superfluid-Mott- insulator transition

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Ma, Ping Nang ^a   Yang, Kai Yu ^a,b   Pollet, Lode ^b   Porto, J V ^c   Troyer, Matthias ^b   Zhang, Fu Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE DIAGRAMS;

CONFINEMENT POTENTIAL; LOCAL PROBING; LOCAL-DENSITY APPROXIMATIONS; MOTT INSULATOR; OPTICAL LATTICES; PARABOLIC TRAPS; SUPERFLUID-MOTT INSULATOR TRANSITION;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 49249105835     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.023605     Document Type: Article

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