Excitation spectra of correlated lattice bosons in a confining trap

We consider ultracold bosonic atoms in an optical lattice with an external trapping potential. To study the excitation energies of the resulting Bose-Hubbard model, we develop a method based on a time-dependent generalization of the Gutzwiller ansatz. We calculate the excitations of the homogeneous...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kovrizhin, D, Sinha, S, Pai, G
Format: Record
Published: 2007