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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/023019
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- Spanish MICINN [FIS2008-00784]
- EU
- ERC
- Caixa Manresa
- Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
- German-Israel Foundation [149/2006, I-1024-2.7/2009]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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We study the ground-state properties of ultracold bosons in an optical lattice in the regime of strong interactions. The system is described by a non-standard Bose-Hubbard model with both occupation-dependent tunneling and on-site interaction. We find that for sufficiently strong coupling, the system features a phase transition from a Mott insulator with one particle per site to a superfluid of spatially extended particle pairs living on top of the Mott background-instead of the usual transition to a superfluid of single particles/holes. Increasing the interaction further, a superfluid of particle pairs localized on a single site (rather than being extended) on top of the Mott background appears. This happens at the same interaction strength where the Mott-insulator phase with two particles per site is destroyed completely by particle-hole fluctuations for arbitrarily small tunneling. In another regime, characterized by weak interaction but high occupation numbers, we observe a dynamical instability in the superfluid excitation spectrum. The new ground state is a superfluid, forming a two-dimensional (2D) slab, localized along one spatial direction that is chosen spontaneously.
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