Two-stage melting in systems of strongly interacting Rydberg atoms.

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.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2010-07-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.230403arXiv 1007.2189PMID 21231432
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