On Quantum Bosonic Solids and Bosonic Superfluids

dc.creatorNazario, Zaira
dc.creatorSantiago, David I.
dc.date2004-03-31
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:57:22Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:57:22Z
dc.descriptionWe review the nature of superfluid ground states and the universality of their properties with emphasis to Bose Einstein Condensate systems in atomic physics. We then study the superfluid Mott transition in such systems. We find that there could be two types of Mott transitions and phases. One of them was described long ago and corresponds to suppression of Josephson tunneling within superfluids sitting at each well. On the other hand, the conditions of optical lattice BEC experiments are such that either the coherence length is longer than the interwell separation, or there is too small a number of bosons per well. This vitiates the existence of a superfluid order parameter within a well, and therefore of Josephson tunneling between wells. Under such conditions, there is a transition to a Mott phase which corresponds to suppression of individual boson tunneling among wells. This last transition is in general discontinuous and can happen for incommensurate values of bosons per site. If the coherence length is small enough and the number of bosons per site large enough, the transition studied in the earlier work will happen.
dc.description24 pages, 2 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0403746
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0403746
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/23640
dc.subjectSoft Condensed Matter
dc.titleOn Quantum Bosonic Solids and Bosonic Superfluids
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