1. Massive Goldstone (Higgs) mode in two-dimensional ultracold atomic lattice systems.
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Longxiang Liu, Kun Chen, Youjin Deng, Endres, Manuel, Pollet, Lode, and Prokof'ev, Nikolay
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HIGGS bosons , *CRITICAL point (Thermodynamics) , *QUANTUM Monte Carlo method , *NAMBU-Goldstone bosons , *STRONG-coupling superconductors , *LORENTZ invariance , *SPIN excitations - Abstract
We discuss how to reveal the massive Goldstone mode, often referred to as the Higgs amplitude mode, near the superfluid-to-insulator quantum critical point (QCP) in a system of two-dimensional ultracold bosonic atoms in optical lattices. The spectral function of the amplitude response is obtained by analytic continuation of the kinetic energy correlation function calculated by Monte Carlo methods. Our results enable a direct comparison with the recent experiment [M. Endres, T. Fukuhara, D. Pekker, M. Cheneau, P. Schauß, C. Gross, E. Demler, S. Kuhr, and I. Bloch, Nature (London) 487, 454 (2012)] and demonstrate a good agreement for temperature shifts induced by lattice modulation. Based on our numerical analysis, we formulate the necessary conditions in terms of homogeneity, detuning from the QCP and temperature in order to reveal the massive Goldstone resonance peak in spectral functions experimentally. We also propose to apply a local modulation at the trap center to overcome the inhomogeneous broadening caused by the parabolic trap confinement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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