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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 90, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.043637
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- DFG [SFB TR 12]
- Deutsche Telekom Stiftung
- Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy
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Periodically driven systems can lead to a directed motion of particles. We investigate this ratchet effect for a bosonic Mott insulator where both a staggered hopping and a staggered local potential vary periodically in time. If driving frequencies are smaller than the interaction strength and the density of excitations is small, one obtains effectively a one-particle quantum ratchet describing the motion of doubly occupied sites (doublons) and empty sites (holes). Such a simple quantum machine can be used to manipulate the excitations of the Mott insulator. For suitably chosen parameters, for example, holes and doublons move in opposite directions. To investigate whether the periodic driving can be used to move particles uphill, i.e., against an external force, we study the influence of a linear potential -gx. For long times, transport is only possible when the driving frequency omega and the external force g are commensurate, n(0)g = m(0)omega, with n(0)/2, m(0) is an element of Z.
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