Berry curvature of interacting bosons in a honeycomb lattice
We consider soft-core bosons with on-site interaction loaded in the honeycomb lattice with different site energies for the two sublattices. Using both a mean-field approach and quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we show that the topology of the honeycomb lattice results in a nonvanishing Berry curvatu...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81126 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39122 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | We consider soft-core bosons with on-site interaction loaded in the honeycomb lattice with different site energies for the two sublattices. Using both a mean-field approach and quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we show that the topology of the honeycomb lattice results in a nonvanishing Berry curvature for the band structure of the single-particle excitations of the system. This Berry curvature induces an anomalous Hall effect when driving the system out of equilibrium. It is seen by studying the time evolution of a wave packet, namely, a superfluid ground state in a harmonic trap, subjected either to a constant force (Bloch oscillations) or to a sudden shift of the trap center. |
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