Dissipative Bose-Hubbard system with intrinsic two-body loss

Takafumi Tomita, Shuta Nakajima, Yosuke Takasu +1

We report an experimental study of dynamics of the metastable ${}^3{P}_2$ state of bosonic ytterbium atoms in an optical lattice. The dissipative Bose-Hubbard system with on-site two-b…