Lattice bosons in a quasi-disordered environment: The effects of next-nearest-neighbor hopping on localization and Bose–Einstein condensation

R. Ramakumar, A.N. Das and S. Sil

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 401, issue C, 214-223

Abstract: We present a theoretical study of the effects of the next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping (t2) on the properties of non-interacting bosons in optical lattices in the presence of an Aubry–André quasi-disorder. First we investigate, employing exact diagonalization, the effects of t2 on the localization properties of a single boson. The localization is monitored using an entanglement measure as well as with inverse participation ratio. We find that the sign of t2 has a significant influence on the localization effects. We also provide analytical results in support of the trends found in the localization behavior. Further, we extend these results including the effects of a harmonic potential which obtains in experiments. Next, we study the effects of t2 on Bose–Einstein condensation. We find that, a positive t2 strongly enhances the low temperature thermal depletion of the condensate while a negative t2 reduces it. It is also found that, for a fixed temperature, increasing the quasi-disorder strength reduces the condensate fraction in the extended regime while enhancing it in the localized regime. We also investigate the effects of boundary conditions and that of the phase of the AA potential on the condensate. These are found to have significant effects on the condensate fraction in the localization transition region.

Keywords: Bose–Einstein condensation; Optical lattices; Disorder effects; Thermodynamic properties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.01.049

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