Two-Stage Melting in Systems of Strongly Interacting Rydberg Atoms
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Institute of Theoretical Physics III, Universitaet Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart (Germany)
We analyze the ground state properties of a one-dimensional cold atomic system in a lattice, where Rydberg excitations are created by an external laser drive. In the classical limit, the ground state is characterized by a complete devil's staircase for the commensurate solid structures of Rydberg excitations. Using perturbation theory and a mapping onto an effective low-energy Hamiltonian, we find a transition of these commensurate solids into a floating solid with algebraic correlations. For stronger quantum fluctuations the floating solid eventually melts within a second quantum phase transition and the ground state becomes paramagnetic.
- OSTI ID:
- 21554430
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 23; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.230403; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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