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) |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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Keywords
- Disorder
- Honeycomb lattice
- Optical lattices
- Quasi-periodicity
- Superfluid-Mott insulator physics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mathematics(all)
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Engineering(all)
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A glimpse of quantum phenomena in optical lattices. / Vishveshwara, Smitha.
In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 370, No. 1969, 28.06.2012, p. 2916-2929.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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