Suppression of the critical temperature for superfluidity near the Mott transition

Authors

S Trotzky
L Pollet, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
F Gerbier
U Schnorrberger
I Bloch
Nikolai Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts - AmherstFollow
Boris Svistunov, University of Massachusetts - AmherstFollow
M Troyer

Publication Date

2010

Journal or Book Title

Nature Physics

Abstract

Ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices have proven to be a controllable, tunable and clean implementation of strongly interacting quantum many-body systems. An essential prospect for such quantum simulators is their ability to map out the phase diagram of fundamental many-body model Hamiltonians. However, the results need to be validated first for representative benchmark problems through state-of-the-art numerical methods of quantum many-body theory. Here we present the first ab initio comparison between experiments and quantum Monte Carlo simulations for strongly interacting Bose gases on a lattice for large systems (up to particles). The comparison enables thermometry for the interacting quantum gas and to experimentally determine the finite-temperature phase diagram for bosonic superfluids in an optical lattice, revealing a suppression of the critical temperature as the transition to the Mott insulator is approached.

Comments

This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v6/n12/full/nphys1799.html

Pages

998–1004

Volume

6

Recommended Citation

Trotzky, S; Pollet, L; Gerbier, F; Schnorrberger, U; Bloch, I; Prokof'ev, Nikolai; Svistunov, Boris; and Troyer, M, "Suppression of the critical temperature for superfluidity near the Mott transition" (2010). Nature Physics. 1149.
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