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arXiv:cond-mat/0605121 · Physical Review Letters

Sweeping from the Superfluid to the Mott Phase in the Bose-Hubbard Model

Ralf Schützhold, Michael Uhlmann, Yan Xu, Uwe R. Fischer

Published Nov 17, 2006• 132 citations
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Abstract

We study the sweep through the quantum phase transition from the superfluid to the Mott state for the Bose-Hubbard model with a time-dependent tunneling rate J(t). In the experimentally relevant case of exponential decay J(t) proportional variant e -gamma t, an adapted mean-field expansion for large fillings n yields a scaling solution for the fluctuations. This enables us to analytically calculate the evolution of the number and phase variations (on-site) and correlations (off-site) for slow (gamma<<mu), intermediate, and fast (nonadiabatic gamma>>mu) sweeps, where mu is the chemical potential. Finally, we derive the dynamical decay of the off-diagonal long-range order as well as the temporal shrinkage of the superfluid fraction in a persistent ring-current setup.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.97.200601

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We study the quench from the Mott-insulator to the superfluid phase in the Bose-Hubbard model and investigate the spatial-temporal growth of phase coherence, that is, phase locking between initially uncorrelated sites. To this end, we establish a hierarchy of correlations via a controlled expansion into inverse powers of the coordination number 1/Z1/Z1/Z. It turns out that the off-diagonal long-range order spreads with a constant propagation speed, forming local condensate patches, whereas the phase correlator follows a diffusionlike growth rate.
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We study a linear ramp of the nearest-neighbor tunneling rate in the Bose-Hubbard model driving the system from the Mott insulator state into the superfluid phase. We employ the truncated Wigner approximation to simulate linear quenches of a uniform system in one, two, and three dimensions, and in a harmonic trap, in three dimensions. In all these setups, the excitation energy decays like one over third root of the quench time. The $\ensuremath{-}1/3$ scaling arises from an impulse-adiabatic approximation---a variant of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism---describing a crossover from nonadiabatic to adiabatic evolution when the system begins to keep pace with the increasing tunneling rate.