Session V4: Dynamics and Non-equilbrium Phenomena in Optical Lattices

11:15 AM–2:15 PM, Thursday, March 16, 2006
Baltimore Convention Center Room: 308

Sponsoring Unit: DAMOP
Chair: Eugene Demler, Harvard University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.MAR.V4.2

Abstract: V4.00002 : Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Moving System of Interacting Bosons

11:51 AM–12:27 PM

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Author:

  Anatoli Polkovnikov
    (Boston University)

Cold atomic systems with their high tunability and nearly perfect isolation from environment give an exciting possibility to address non-equilibrium problems, where both quantumand dynamic effects are important. In this talk I describe a moving system of interacting bosons in a periodic optical lattice potential and generalize the conventional superfluid-Mott insulator transition to this highly non-equilibrium situation. I will discuss implications of our results to recent and future experiments.

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