378 research outputs found
Mott Insulator to Superfluid transition in Bose-Bose mixtures in a two-dimensional lattice
We perform a numeric study (Worm algorithm Monte Carlo simulations) of
ultracold two-component bosons in two-dimensional optical lattices. We study
how the Mott insulator to superfluid transition is affected by the presence of
a second superfluid bosonic species. We find that, at fixed interspecies
interaction, the upper and lower boundaries of the Mott lobe are differently
modified. The lower boundary is strongly renormalized even for relatively low
filling factor of the second component and moderate (interspecies) interaction.
The upper boundary, instead, is affected only for large enough filling of the
second component. Whereas boundaries are renormalized we find evidence of
polaron-like excitations. Our results are of interest for current experimental
setups.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted as PRA Rapid Communicatio
On-site number statistics of ultracold lattice bosons
We study on-site occupation number fluctuations in a system of interacting
bosons in an optical lattice. The ground-state distribution is obtained
analytically in the limiting cases of strong and weak interaction, and by means
of exact Monte Carlo simulations in the strongly correlated regime. As the
interaction is increased, the distribution evolves from Poissonian in the
non-interacting gas to a sharply peaked distribution in the Mott-insulator (MI)
regime. In the special case of large occupation numbers, we demonstrate
analytically and check numerically that there exists a wide interval of
interaction strength, in which the on-site number fluctuations remain Gaussian
and are gradually squeezed until they are of order unity near the superfluid
(SF)-MI transition. Recently, the on-site number statistics were studied
experimentally in a wide range of lattice potential depths [Phys. Rev. Lett.
\textbf{96}, 090401 (2006)]. In our simulations, we are able to directly
reproduce experimental conditions using temperature as the only free parameter.
Pronounced temperature dependence suggests that measurements of on-site atom
number fluctuations can be employed as a reliable method of thermometry in both
SF and MI regimes.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Supersolid phase with cold polar molecules on a triangular lattice
We study a system of heteronuclear molecules on a triangular lattice and
analyze the potential of this system for the experimental realization of a
supersolid phase. The ground state phase diagram contains superfluid, solid and
supersolid phases. At finite temperatures and strong interactions there is an
additional emulsion region, in contrast to similar models with short-range
interactions. We derive the maximal critical temperature and the
corresponding entropy for supersolidity and find feasible
experimental conditions for its realization.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Adverse reactions to oncologic drugs: spontaneous reporting and signal detection
Oncology is one of the areas of medicine with the most active research being conducted on new drugs. New pharmacological entities frequently enter the clinical arena, and therefore, the safety profile of anticancer products deserves continuous monitoring. However, only very severe and (unusual) suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are usually reported, since cancer patients develop ADRs very frequently and some practical selectivity must be used. Notably, a recent study was able to identify 76 serious ADRs reported in updated drug labels of oncologic drugs and 50% of them (n = 38) were potentially fatal. Of these, 49 and 58%, respectively, were not described in initial drug labels. The aims of this article are to provide an overview about spontaneous reporting of ADRs of oncologic drugs and to discuss the available methods to analyze the safety of anticancer drugs using databases of spontaneous ADR reporting
How central inputs and force and velocity feedbacks determine motoneurons activity during voluntary hand movements
Superfluidity of flexible chains of polar molecules
We study properties of quantum chains in a gas of polar bosonic molecules
confined in a stack of N identical one- and two- dimensional optical lattice
layers, with molecular dipole moments aligned perpendicularly to the layers.
Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of a single chain (formed by a single molecule
on each layer) reveal its quantum roughening transition. The case of finite
in-layer density of molecules is studied within the framework of the J-current
model approximation, and it is found that N-independent molecular superfluid
phase can undergo a quantum phase transition to a rough chain superfluid. A
theorem is proven that no superfluidity of chains with length shorter than N is
possible. The scheme for detecting chain formation is proposed.Comment: Submitted to Proceedings of the QFS2010 satellite conference "Cold
Gases meet Many-Body Theory", Grenoble, August 7, 2010. This is the expanded
version of V.
Quantum magnetism and counterflow supersolidity of up-down bosonic dipoles
We study a gas of dipolar Bosons confined in a two-dimensional optical
lattice. Dipoles are considered to point freely in both up and down directions
perpendicular to the lattice plane. This results in a nearest neighbor
repulsive (attractive) interaction for aligned (anti-aligned) dipoles. We find
regions of parameters where the ground state of the system exhibits insulating
phases with ferromagnetic or anti-ferromagnetic ordering, as well as with
rational values of the average magnetization. Evidence for the existence of a
novel counterflow supersolid quantum phase is also presented.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Effect of Doublon-Holon Binding on Mott transition---Variational Monte Carlo Study of Two-Dimensional Bose Hubbard Models
To understand the mechanism of Mott transitions in case of no magnetic
influence, superfluid-insulator (Mott) transitions in the S=0 Bose Hubbard
model at unit filling are studied on the square and triangular lattices, using
a variational Monte Carlo method. In trial many-body wave functions, we
introduce various types of attractive correlation factors between a
doubly-occupied site (doublon, D) and an empty site (holon, H), which play a
central role for Mott transitions, in addition to the onsite repulsive
(Gutzwiller) factor. By optimizing distance-dependent parameters, we study
various properties of this type of wave functions. With a hint from the Mott
transition arising in a completely D-H bound state, we propose an improved
picture of Mott transitions, by introducing two characteristic length scales,
the D-H binding length and the minimum D-D exclusion length
. Generally, a Mott transition occurs when becomes
comparable to . In the conductive (superfluid) state, domains of
D-H pairs overlap with each other (); thereby D and
H can propagate independently as density carriers by successively exchanging
the partners. In contrast, intersite repulsive Jastrow (D-D and H-H) factors
have little importance for the Mott transition.Comment: 16 pages, 22 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Scaling property of the critical hopping parameters for the Bose-Hubbard model
Recently precise results for the boundary between the Mott insulator phase
and the superfluid phase of the homogeneous Bose-Hubbard model have become
available for arbitrary integer filling factor g and any lattice dimension d >
1. We use these data for demonstrating that the critical hopping parameters
obey a scaling relationship which allows one to map results for different g
onto each other. Unexpectedly, the mean-field result captures the dependence of
the exact critical parameters on the filling factor almost fully. We also
present an approximation formula which describes the critical parameters for d
> 1 and any g with high accuracy.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. to appear in EPJ
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