Effect of fluctuations on the superfluid-supersolid phase transition on the lattice

Ralf Schützhold*, Michael Uhlmann, Uwe R. Fischer

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    Abstract

    We derive a controlled expansion into mean field plus fluctuations for the extended Bose-Hubbard model, involving interactions with many neighbors on an arbitrary periodic lattice, and study the superfluid-supersolid phase transition. Near the critical point, the impact of (thermal and quantum) fluctuations on top of the mean field grows, which entails striking effects, such as negative superfluid densities and thermodynamical instability of the superfluid phase-earlier as expected from mean-field dynamics. We also predict the existence of long-lived "supercooled" states with anomalously large quantum fluctuations.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number033604
    JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
    Volume78
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 8 Sept 2008

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