arXiv:1012.3431 · Physical Review Letters
Bosonic and Fermionic Dipoles on a Ring
Sascha Zöllner, Georg M. Bruun, C. J. Pethick, S. M. Reimann
Abstract
We show that dipolar bosons and fermions confined in a quasi-one-dimensional ring trap exhibit a rich variety of states because their interaction is inhomogeneous. For purely repulsive interactions, with increasing strength of the dipolar coupling there is a crossover from a gaslike state to an inhomogeneous crystal-like one. For small enough angles between the dipoles and the plane of the ring, there are regions with attractive interactions, and clustered states can form.