Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-24-2013
Abstract
Motivated by recent experiments on toroidal Bose-Einstein condensates in all-optical traps with tunable weak links, we study the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model on a ring-shaped lattice with a small region of weak hopping integrals using quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Besides the usual Mott insulating and superfluid phases, we find a phase which is compressible but nonsuperfluid with a local Mott region. This "local Mott" phase extends in a large region of the phase diagram. These results suggest that the insulating and conducting phases can be tuned by a local parameter, which may provide additional insight into the design of atomtronic devices. © 2013 American Physical Society.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Recommended Citation
Hettiarachchilage, K., Rousseau, V., Tam, K., Jarrell, M., & Moreno, J. (2013). Phase diagram of the Bose-Hubbard model on a ring-shaped lattice with tunable weak links. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 87 (5) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.87.051607