Sauter-Schwinger like tunneling in tilted Bose-Hubbard lattices

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• Patrick Navez (Max Plank Institute Dresden)
• Wednesday 15 February 2012, 15:00-16:00
• Physics East 217.

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We establish a set of hierarchy equations describing the time evolution of the N-points spatial correlation reduced density matrix in a lattice Bose gas. This set of equations is solved through a 1/z expansion where z is the coordination number i.e. number of interaction of a site with its nearest neighbors. We study the Mott phase on a tilted lattice. On the leading order (Gutzwiller mean-field level), the tilt has no effect but on the next order quantum fluctuations appear and entail particle-hole pair creation via tunneling. For small potential gradients (long-wavelength limit), we derive a quantitative analogy to the Sauter-Schwinger effect, i.e., electron-positron pair creation out of the vacuum by an electric field. For large tilts, we obtain resonant tunneling related to Bloch oscillations.

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