Speaker
Robert E. Zillich
(JKU Linz)
Description
We extend the time-dependent Variational Monte Carlo method to a new way of accessing the dynamic structure factor of strongly correlated one-dimensional bosonic systems in continuous space. In order to extract the response of the system in the form of density fluctuations, we use the stochastic noise inherent to this Monte Carlo simulations. We present the details of the method and show the application to bosons in an optical lattice, where the transition from the superfluid to the Mott insulating phase is manifested in the opening of a gap in the dispersion relation. The method can also be used to study mixtures of different bosonic species and non-linear excitations.
Primary author
Mathias Gartner
(Johannes Kepler University Linz)
Co-authors
Robert E. Zillich
(JKU Linz)
Ferran Mazzanti
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
