Controlling ultracold atoms in multi-band optical lattices for simulation of Kondo physics

2004 EDP Sciences
, , Citation L.-M. Duan 2004 EPL 67 721 DOI 10.1209/epl/i2004-10115-8

0295-5075/67/5/721

Abstract

We show that ultracold atoms can be controlled in multi-band optical lattices through spatially periodic Raman pulses for investigation of a class of strongly correlated physics related to the Kondo problem. The underlying dynamics of this system is described by a spin-dependent fermionic or bosonic Kondo-Hubbard lattice model even if we have only spin-independent atomic collision interaction. We solve the bosonic Kondo-Hubbard lattice model through a mean-field approximation, and the result shows a clear phase transition from the ferromagnetic superfluid to the Kondo-singlet insulator at the integer filling.

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10.1209/epl/i2004-10115-8