Abstract
Optical lattices in cold atomic systems offer an excellent setting for realizing quantum condensed matter phenomena. Here, a glimpse of such a setting is provided for the nonspecialist. Some basic aspects of cold atomic gases and optical lattices are reviewed. Quantum many-body physics is explored in the case of interacting bosons on a lattice. Quantum behaviour in the presence of a potential landscape is examined for three different cases: a hexagonal lattice potential, a quasi-periodic potential and a disorder potential. This journal is
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2916-2929 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |
| Volume | 370 |
| Issue number | 1969 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 28 2012 |
Keywords
- Disorder
- Honeycomb lattice
- Optical lattices
- Quasi-periodicity
- Superfluid-Mott insulator physics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Mathematics
- General Physics and Astronomy
- General Engineering