Spin-orbit Coupling and Strong Correlations in Ultracold Bose Gases

Download or read book Spin-orbit Coupling and Strong Correlations in Ultracold Bose Gases written by William S. Cole and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final Chapter, I address a problem which perhaps seems, at first glance, to be unrelated to bosons with Rashba SOC. The problem is identifying the ground states of spinless hardcore bosons on a frustrated honeycomb lattice. The connection between these problems is the delicate question of how bosons condense in a flat band. In that section I provide numerical support to a recently proposed scenario of "statistical transmutation," where an approximate ground state of the hard core bosons can be obtained from a mean-field approximation in terms of composite fermions.