Dissemin is shutting down on January 1st, 2025

Published in

EPL Association, European Physical Society Letters, 3(107), p. 30006

DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/107/30006

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Matter waves in atomic artificial graphene

Journal article published in 2014 by Nicola Bartolo, Mauro Antezza ORCID
This paper is available in a repository.
This paper is available in a repository.

Full text: Download

Red circle
Preprint: archiving forbidden
Orange circle
Postprint: archiving restricted
Red circle
Published version: archiving forbidden
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

We present a new model to realize artificial 2D lattices with cold atoms investigating the atomic artificial graphene: a 2D confined matter wave is scattered by atoms of a second species trapped around the nodes of a honeycomb optical lattice. The system allows an exact determination of the Green function, hence of the transport properties. The inter-species interaction can be tuned via the interplay between scattering length and confinements. Band structure and density of states of a periodic lattice are derived for different values of the interaction strength. Emergence and features of Dirac cones are pointed out, together with the appearance of multiple gaps and a non-dispersive and isolated flat band. Robustness against finite-size and vacancies effects is numerically investigated.