First-Order Phase Transitions in Optical Lattices with Tunable Three-Body Onsite Interaction

We study the two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model in the presence of a three-body interaction term, both at a mean-field level and via quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The three-body term is tuned by coupling the triply occupied states to a trapped universal trimer. We find that, for a sufficiently at...

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Main Authors: Safavi-Naini, Arghavan, Stecher, Javier von, Capogrosso-Sansone, B., Rittenhouse, Seth T.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75820