Edge excitations of bosonic fractional quantum Hall phases in optical lattices
arXiv:1112.1800 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.235137
Abstract
The rapid development of artificial gauge fields in ultracold gases suggests that atomic realization of fractional quantum Hall physics will become experimentally practical in the near future. While it is known that bosons on lattices can support quantum Hall states, the universal edge excitations that provide the most likely experimental probe of the topological order have not been obtained. We find that the edge excitations of an interacting boson lattice model are surprisingly sensitive to interedge hybridization and edge-bulk mixing for some confining potentals. With properly chosen potentials and fluxes, the edge spectrum is surprisingly clear even for small systems with strong lattice effects such as bandwidth. Various fractional quantum Hall phases for bosons can be obtained, and the phases ν=1/2 and ν=2/3 have the edge spectra predicted by the chiral Luttinger liquid theory.
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