2009/06/25 by Lincoln D. Carr, Markus K. Oberthaler, Carr, Lincoln D. +1
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Spectroscopy and Laser Applications #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.quant-gas
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0906.4708
5 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2009/06/25 · openalex publication_date 2009/06/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We find a new physical regime in the trapped Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian using time-evolving block decimation. Between Mott-insulating and superfluid phases, the latter induced by trap compression, a spatially self-organized state appears in which non-local entropy signals entanglement between spatially distant superfluid shells. We suggest a linear rather than harmonic potential as an ideal way to observe such a self-organized system. We also explore both quantum information and thermal entropies in the superfluid regime, finding that while the former follows the density closely the latter can be strongly manipulated with the mean field.