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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Bose Hubbard Model in a Synthetic Magnetic Field: Novel Chiral Mott Insulator State

Arun Paramekanti, Maheswar Maji, Arya Dhar, Tapan Mishra, Ramesh V. Pai, Subroto Mukerjee

Published Jun 7, 2012• 0 citations
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