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Stability of -orbital Bose-Einstein condensates in optical checkerboard and square lattices
We investigate -orbital Bose-Einstein condensates in both the square and
checkerboard lattice by numerically solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The
periodic potential for the latter lattice is taken exactly from the recent
experiment [Nature Phys. 7, 147 (2011)]. It is confirmed that the staggered
orbital-current state is the lowest-energy state in the band. Our numerical
calculation further reveals that for both lattices the staggered -orbital
state suffers Landau instability but the situation is remarkably different for
dynamical instability. A dynamically stable parameter region is found for the
checkerboard lattice, but not for the square.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure
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