arXiv:0803.1140 · Physical Review A
Incompressible liquid, stripes, and bubbles in rapidly rotating Bose atoms at ν=1
Hidetsugu Seki, Kazusumi Ino
Abstract
We numerically study the system of rapidly rotating Bose atoms at the filling factor (ratio of particle number to vortex number) $\ensuremath{\nu}=1$ with the dipolar interaction. A moderate dipolar interaction stabilizes the incompressible quantum liquid at $\ensuremath{\nu}=1$. Further addition induces a collapse of it. We show evidence that states after the collapse are compressible states which have phases with stripes and bubbles. Low-energy spectra are consistently interpreted by the presence of particle-hole excitations in which a Bose atom hops between stripes or bubbles. We also investigate models constructed from truncated interactions and the models with the three-body contact interaction. They also have phases with stripes and bubbles.