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Physics Letters A

Ultracold bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice chain: Newton's cradle and Bose enhancement effect

Ji-Guo Wang, Shi-Jie Yang

Published Mar 18, 2017• 1 citation
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10.1016/j.physleta.2017.03.015

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The difference between boson and fermion dynamics in quasi-one-dimensional lattices is studied by calculating the persistent current in small quantum rings and by exact simulations of the time evolution of the many-particle state in two cases: expansion of a localized cloud and collisions in a Newton's cradle. We consider three different lattices which in the tight-binding model exhibit flat bands. The physical realization is considered to be an optical lattice with bosonic or fermionic atoms. The atoms are assumed to interact with a repulsive short-range interaction. The different statistics of bosons and fermions lead to different dynamics. Spinless fermions are easily trapped in the flat-band states due to the Pauli exclusion principle, which prevents them from interacting, while bosons are able to push each other out from the flat-band states.