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arXiv:0705.2684 · Physical Review Letters

Superfluid to Mott-Insulator Transition in Bose-Hubbard Models

Manuela Capello, Federico Becca, Michele Fabrizio, Sandro Sorella

Published Aug 3, 2007• 58 citations
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Abstract

We study the superfluid-insulator transition in Bose-Hubbard models in one-, two-, and three-dimensional cubic lattices by means of a recently proposed variational wave function. In one dimension, the variational results agree with the expected Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless scenario of the interaction-driven Mott transition. In two and three dimensions, we find evidence that, across the transition, most of the spectral weight is concentrated at high energies, suggestive of preformed Mott-Hubbard sidebands. This result is compatible with the experimental data by Stoferle et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 130403 (2004)].

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.99.056402

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