Fractional Excitations in Cold Atomic Gases
arXiv:1210.1400 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.86.051606
Abstract
We study the behavior of excitations in the tilted one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model. In the phase with broken symmetry, fundamental excitations are domain-walls which show fractional statistics. Using perturbation theory, we derive an analytic model for the time evolution of these fractional excitations, and demonstrate the existence of a repulsively bound state above a critical center of mass momentum. The validity of the perturbative analysis is confirmed by the use of t- DMRG simulations. These findings open the path for experimental detection of fractional particles in cold atomic gases.
5 pages, 4 figures
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