Bistable Mott-insulator-to-superfluid phase transition in cavity optomechanics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Chen, W ^a   Zhang, K ^b   Goldbaum, D S ^a   Bhattacharya, M ^a   Meystre, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-STABILITY; BISTABLES; CAVITY FIELD; INTRACAVITIES; MANY-BODY STATE; MOTT INSULATORS; NANOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CAVITIES; OPTICAL-LATTICE POTENTIAL; OPTO-MECHANICS; OPTOMECHANICAL; QUANTUM REGIMES; SINGLE INPUT; SUPERFLUID PHASE; ULTRACOLD ATOMIC GAS; ULTRACOLD BOSONS; WEAK-COUPLING LIMITS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 68549096311     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.011801     Document Type: Article

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