Dynamics of a bistable Mott insulator to superfluid phase transition in cavity optomechanics

2009/06/30 by K. Zhang, W. Chen, P. Meystre +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Bistability #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Laser #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Mott insulator #Nonlinear optics #Optical bistability #Optical lattice #Optics #Optomechanics #Phase transition #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Quantum phase transition #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Resonator #Superfluidity #cond-mat.other #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2009.10.047

published as Optics Communications Volume 283, Issue 5, 1 March 2010, Pages 665-670 · 6 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2009/09/29 · openalex publication_date 2009/11/06 · arxiv updated 2011/04/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We study the dynamics of the many-body state of ultracold bosons trapped in a bistable optical lattice in an optomechanical resonator controlled by a time-dependent input field. We focus on the dynamics of the many-body system following discontinuous jumps of the intracavity field. We identify experimentally realizable parameters for the bistable quantum phase transition between Mott insulator and superfluid.

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