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Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015301 (2009) [4 pages]

Feshbach-Einstein Condensates

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V. G. Rousseau and P. J. H. Denteneer
Instituut-Lorentz, LION, Universiteit Leiden, Postbus 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Received 21 October 2008; revised 13 November 2008; published 6 January 2009

We investigate the phase diagram of a two-species Bose-Hubbard model describing atoms and molecules on a lattice, interacting via a Feshbach resonance. We identify a region where the system exhibits an exotic super-Mott phase and regions with phases characterized by atomic and/or molecular condensates. Our approach is based on a recently developed exact quantum Monte Carlo algorithm: the stochastic Green function algorithm with tunable directionality. We confirm some of the results predicted by mean-field studies, but we also find disagreement with these studies. In particular, we find a phase with an atomic but no molecular condensate, which is missing in all mean-field phase diagrams.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.015301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.015301
PACS:
67.85.−d, 02.70.Uu, 03.75.Lm, 05.30.Jp

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Comment: María Eckholt and Tommaso Roscilde, Comment on “Feshbach-Einstein Condensates”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 199603 (2010).