Journal of Physics Conference Series
Mott lobes evolution of the spin-1 Bose-Hubbard model
A. F. Hincapie-F, R Franco, Jereson Silva-Valencia
Abstract
We study spin-1 bosons confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice, taking into consideration both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interaction. Using the density matrix renormalization group, we determine the phase diagram for the two firsts lobes and report the evolution of the first and second Mott lobes with respect to the spin-exchange interaction parameter ( U 2 ). We determine that for the antiferromagnetic case, the first lobe is suppressed while the second grows as | U 2 | increases. For the ferromagnetic case, the first and second Mott lobes are suppressed by the spin-exchange interaction parameter. We propose an expresion to describe the evolution of the critical point with the increase in | U 2 | for both cases.