Gutzwiller approach to the Bose-Hubbard model with random local impurities

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作者
Buonsante, Pierfrancesco [1 ,2 ]
Massel, Francesco [2 ]
Penna, Vittorio [1 ,2 ]
Vezzani, Alessandro [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Politecn Torino, CNISM Unita Ric, I-10129 Turin, Italy
[2] Politecn Torino, Dipartimento Fis, I-10129 Turin, Italy
[3] CNR INFM, S3, Natl Res Ctr, Dipartimento Fis, I-41100 Modena, Italy
[4] Univ Parma, Dipartimento Fis, I-43100 Parma, Italy
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2009年 / 79卷 / 01期
关键词
boson systems; fermion systems; Hubbard model; impurities; phase diagrams; MEAN-FIELD THEORY; SUPERFLUID-INSULATOR TRANSITION; MATRIX RENORMALIZATION-GROUP; DISORDERED BOSONS; OPTICAL LATTICES; INTERACTING BOSONS; PHASE-DIAGRAM; LOCALIZATION; SYSTEMS; ATOMS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.79.013623
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Recently it has been suggested that fermions whose hopping amplitude is quenched to extremely low values provide a convenient source of local disorder for lattice bosonic systems realized in current experiment on ultracold atoms. Here we investigate the phase diagram of such systems, which provide the experimental realization of a Bose-Hubbard model whose local potentials are randomly extracted from a binary distribution. Adopting a site-dependent Gutzwiller description of the state of the system, we address one- and two-dimensional lattices and obtain results agreeing with previous findings, as far as the compressibility of the system is concerned. We discuss the expected peaks in the experimental excitation spectrum of the system, related to the incompressible phases, and the superfluid character of the partially compressible regions characterizing the phase diagram of systems with binary disorder. In our investigation we make use of several analytical results whose derivation is described in appendixes, and whose validity is not limited to the system under concern.
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