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@article{Galilo:2017:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.203204,
author = {Galilo, B and Lee, DKK and Barnett, R},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.203204},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
title = {Topological edge state manifestation of interacting 2D boson lattices in a harmonic trap},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.203204},
volume = {119},
year = {2017}
}

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AB  - In this Letter, it is shown that interactions can facilitate the emergence of topological edge states of quantum-degenerate bosonic systems in the presence of a harmonic potential. This effect is demonstrated with the concrete model of a hexagonal lattice populated by spin-one bosons under a synthetic gauge field. In fermionic or noninteracting systems, the presence of a harmonic trap can obscure the observation of edge states. For our system with weakly interacting bosons in the Thomas-Fermi regime, we can clearly see a topological band structure with a band gap traversed by edge states. We also find that the number of edge states crossing the gap is increased in the presence of a harmonic trap, and the edge modes experience an energy shift while traversing the first Brillouin zone which is related to the topological properties of the system. We find an analytical expression for the edge-state energies and our comparison with numerical computation shows excellent agreement.
AU  - Galilo,B
AU  - Lee,DKK
AU  - Barnett,R
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.203204
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 0031-9007
TI  - Topological edge state manifestation of interacting 2D boson lattices in a harmonic trap
T2  - Physical Review Letters
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.203204
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06285v1
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/54278
VL  - 119
ER  -

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