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Studies of bosons in optical lattices in a harmonic potential
We present a theoretical study of bose condensation and specific heat of
non-interacting bosons in finite lattices in harmonic potentials in one, two,
and three dimensions. We numerically diagonalize the Hamiltonian to obtain the
energy levels of the systems. Using the energy levels thus obtained, we
investigate the temperature dependence, dimensionality effects, lattice size
dependence, and evolution to the bulk limit of the condensate fraction and the
specific heat. Some preliminary results on the specific heat of fermions in
optical lattices are also presented. The results obtained are contextualized
within the current experimental and theoretical scenario.Comment: Revised version, References updated, a new section on Fermions added,
14 pages, 16 figure
Detecting multi-atomic composite states in optical lattices
We propose and discuss methods for detecting quasi-molecular complexes which
are expected to form in strongly interacting optical lattice systems.
Particular emphasis is placed on the detection of composite fermions forming in
Bose-Fermi mixtures. We argue that, as an indirect indication of the composite
fermions and a generic consequence of strong interactions, periodic
correlations must appear in the atom shot noise of bosonic absorption images,
similar to the bosonic Mott insulator [S. F\"olling, et al., Nature {\bf 434},
481 (2005)]. The composites can also be detected directly and their
quasi-momentum distribution measured. This method -- an extension of the
technique of noise correlation interferometry [E. Altman et al., Phys. Rev. A
{\bf 79}, 013603 (2004)] -- relies on measuring higher order correlations
between the bosonic and fermionic shot noise in the absorption images. However,
it fails for complexes consisting of more than three atoms.Comment: 9 revtex page
Representations of involutory subalgebras of affine Kac-Moody algebras
We consider the subalgebras of split real, non-twisted affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras that are fixed by the Chevalley involution. These infinite-dimensional Lie algebras are not of Kac-Moody type and admit finite-dimensional unfaithful representations. We exhibit a formulation of these algebras in terms of -graded Lie algebras that allows the construction of a large class of representations using the techniques of induced representations. We study how these representations relate to previously established spinor representations as they arise in the theory of supergravity
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