Reentrant transition of bosons in a quasiperiodic potential

Abstract

We investigate the behavior of a two dimensional array of Bose-Einstein condensate tubes described by means of a Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. Using a Wannier function expansion for the wavefunction in each tube, we compute the Bose-Hubbard parameters related to two different longitudinal potentials, periodic and quasiperiodic. We predict that - upon increasing the external potential strength along the direction of the tubes - the condensate can experience a reentrant transition between a Mott insulating phase and the superfluid one.

Accepted for publication in EPL