Dimer of two bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice
- Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046 (United States)
We investigate theoretically the stationary states of two bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice within the Bose-Hubbard model. Starting from a finite lattice with periodic boundary conditions, we effect a partial separation of the center-of-mass and relative motions of the two-atom lattice dimer in the lattice momentum representation, and carefully analyze the eigenstates of the relative motion. In the limit when the lattice becomes infinitely long, we find closed-form analytic expressions for both the bound state and the dissociated states of the lattice dimer. We outline the corresponding analysis in the position representation. The results are used to discuss three ways to detect the dimer: by measuring the momentum distribution of the atoms, by finding the size of the molecule with measurements of atom number correlations at two lattice sites, and by dissociating a bound state of the lattice dimer with a modulation of the lattice depth.
- OSTI ID:
- 21413338
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 81, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043609; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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