a State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Dept. of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China b B2 Institute, Dept. of Physics and College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Abstract:
We study the dynamics of the many-body state of ultracold bosons trapped in a bistable optical lattice in an optomechanical resonator controlled by a time-dependent input field. We focus on the dynamics of the many-body system following discontinuous jumps of the intracavity field. We identify experimentally realizable parameters for the bistable quantum phase transition between Mott insulator and superfluid.