Thursday, May 31, 2012

1205.6641 (Xing-Hai Zhang et al.)

Mott Insulator-Superfluid Transition in a Generalized Bose-Hubbard Model
with Topologically Non-trivial Flat-Band
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Xing-Hai Zhang, Su-Peng Kou
In this paper, we studied a generalized Bose-Hubbard model on a checkerboard lattice with topologically nontrivial flat-band. We used mean-field method to decouple the model Hamiltonian and obtained phase diagram by Landau theory of second-order phase transition. We further calculate the energy gap and the dispersion of quasi-particle or quasi-hole in Mott insulator state and found that in strong interaction limit the quasi-particles or the quasi-holes also have flat bands.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6641

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