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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Two-stage melting in systems of strongly interacting Rydberg atoms
Hendrik Weimer1, Hans Peter Büchler
1Institute of Theoretical Physics III, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany. hweimer@itp3.uni-stuttgart.de
Abstract:
We analyze the ground state properties of a one-dimensional cold atomic system in a lattice, where Rydberg excitations are created by an external laser drive. In the classical limit, the ground state is characterized by a complete devil's staircase for the commensurate solid structures of Rydberg excitations. Using perturbation theory and a mapping onto an effective low-energy Hamiltonian, we find a transition of these commensurate solids into a floating solid with algebraic correlations. For stronger quantum fluctuations the floating solid eventually melts within a second quantum phase transition and the ground state becomes paramagnetic.
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