Physical review. B./Physical review. B
Hall effect for interacting bosons in a lattice
K. Patucha, B. Grygiel, T. A. Zaleski
Abstract
Tempted by the progress in measurements of transport properties of ultracold atomic system and by the experimental methods of creating artificial gauge potentials, we study the Hall conductivity of strongly interacting bosonic particles in a lattice. We use the Haldane-Bose-Hubbard model in the quantum rotor approach to obtain a dependence of the Hall conductivity on the temperature, frequency, and model parameters. We identify two types of excitations contributing to the Hall conductivity, a generation of particle-hole pairs and a coupling of the thermally excited quasiparticles to the external field. We observe a strong influence of the Berry curvature on the transverse transport.