We study the properties of ultra-cold bosons in optical lattice in arbitrary gauge potentials. Using quantum rotor approach we are able to go beyond mean-field approximation thus taking into account subtleties of the band structure of the artificial magnetic field. This allows us to elucidate the interplay of the subbands widths and energy gaps on the formation of the coherent state. As a result, we are able to pinpoint the elements of the band structure, which are crucial to proper theoretical description of the synthetic magnetic field in a lattice bosonic system. This leads us finally to a method of approximation of the Hofstadter butterfly spectrum with a simpler band structure and use it to investigate the ground state of the system for a wide range of magnetic fluxes.
We study ultra-cold bosonic systems in optical lattice using quantum rotor approach to calculate the current-current correlations, which provides the information about conductivity of the system. The method allows us to go beyond mean-field approximation and track the behavior of the real part of the conductivity along the phase transition between the Mott insulator and superfluid state for various geometries of the lattice. In the phase-ordered state at zero temperature, a discrete ingredient appears resulting from the long-range coherence in the system.
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