Thursday, June 7, 2012

1206.1067 (Jacek Dziarmaga et al.)

Quench from Mott Insulator to Superfluid    [PDF]

Jacek Dziarmaga, Marek Tylutki, Wojciech H. Zurek
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 1...3 dimensions, and in a harmonic trap in 3 dimensions. In all these setups the excitation energy decays like one over third root of the quench time. The -1/3 scaling is explained by an impulse-adiabatic approximation - a variant of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism - describing a crossover from non-adiabatic to adiabatic evolution when the system begins to keep pace with the increasing tunneling rate.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1067

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