Non-standard Hubbard models in optical lattices: a review

O Dutta, M Gajda, P Hauke, M Lewenstein… - Reports on Progress …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Originally, the Hubbard model was derived for describing the behavior of strongly correlated
electrons in solids. However, for over a decade now, variations of it have also routinely been …

Disordered quantum gases under control

L Sanchez-Palencia, M Lewenstein - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
When attempting to understand the role of disorder in condensed-matter physics, we face
considerable experimental and theoretical difficulties, and many questions are still open …

[BOOK][B] Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices: Simulating quantum many-body systems

M Lewenstein, A Sanpera - 2012 - books.google.com
Quantum computers, though not yet available on the market, will revolutionize the future of
information processing. Quantum computers for special purposes like quantum simulators …

Emergence of coherence and the dynamics of quantum phase transitions

S Braun, M Friesdorf, SS Hodgman… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The dynamics of quantum phase transitions pose one of the most challenging problems in
modern many-body physics. Here, we study a prototypical example in a clean and well …

Time-dependent impurity in ultracold fermions: Orthogonality catastrophe and beyond

M Knap, A Shashi, Y Nishida, A Imambekov… - Physical Review X, 2012 - APS
The recent experimental realization of strongly imbalanced mixtures of ultracold atoms
opens new possibilities for studying impurity dynamics in a controlled setting. In this paper …

Cooling in strongly correlated optical lattices: prospects and challenges

DC McKay, B DeMarco - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical lattices have emerged as ideal simulators for Hubbard models of strongly correlated
materials, such as the high-temperature superconducting cuprates. In optical lattice …

Engineering novel optical lattices

P Windpassinger, K Sengstock - Reports on progress in physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical lattices have developed into a widely used and highly recognized tool to study many-
body quantum physics with special relevance for solid state type systems. One of the most …

Recent developments in quantum Monte Carlo simulations with applications for cold gases

L Pollet - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
This is a review of recent developments in Monte Carlo methods in the field of ultracold
gases. For bosonic atoms in an optical lattice we discuss path-integral Monte Carlo …

Quantum phase transition to unconventional multi-orbital superfluidity in optical lattices

P Soltan-Panahi, DS Lühmann, J Struck… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Orbital physics plays a significant role for a vast number of important phenomena in complex
condensed-matter systems, including high-temperature superconductivity and …

Superfluidity of interacting bosonic mixtures in optical lattices

B Gadway, D Pertot, R Reimann, D Schneble - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We report the observation of many-body interaction effects for a homonuclear bosonic
mixture in a three-dimensional optical lattice with variable state dependence along one axis …