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Gauge-invariant implementation of the Abelian Higgs model on optical lattices
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Gauge-invariant implementation of the Abelian Higgs model on optical lattices

Alexei Bazavov, Yannick Meurice, Shan-Wen Tsai, Judah Unmuth-Yockey and Jin Zhang
Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, Vol.92(7), 076003
03/28/2015
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.076003
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Phys. Rev. D 92, 076003 (2015) We present a gauge-invariant effective action for the Abelian Higgs model (scalar electrodynamics) with a chemical potential $\mu$ on a 1+1 dimensional lattice. This formulation provides an expansion in the hopping parameter $\kappa$ which we test with Monte Carlo simulations for a broad range of the inverse gauge coupling $\beta_{pl}$ and small values of the scalar self-coupling $\lambda$. In the opposite limit of infinitely large $\lambda$, the partition function can be written as a traced product of local tensors which allows us to write exact blocking formulas. Their numerical implementation requires truncations but there is no sign problem for arbitrary values of $\mu$. We show that the time continuum limit of the blocked transfer matrix can be obtained numerically and, in the limit of infinite $\beta_{pl}$ and with a spin-1 truncation, the small volume energy spectrum is identical to the low energy spectrum of a two-species Bose-Hubbard model in the limit of large onsite repulsion. We extend this procedure for finite $\beta_{pl}$ and derive a spin-1 approximation of the Hamiltonian. It involves new terms corresponding to transitions among the two species in the Bose-Hubbard model. We propose an optical lattice implementation involving a ladder structure.

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