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Quantum phase transitions and coherent tunneling in a bilayer of ultracold atoms with dipole interactions

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We study the quantum phase transitions and coherent tunneling in bilayer ultracold bosonic atoms with dipolar interactions at total filling factor ν T = 1/2. We demonstrate that, due to the unique characters of the dipole interactions, the ground state of the system may undergo paired quantum Hall state (PQH), dimer quantum-Hall state (DQH), and super-counter-fluidity phase (SCF) by tuning the dipole strength. The SCF state which breaks the easy-plane U(1) symmetry is of particular interest because it can exhibit interlayer coherent tuneling in the incompressible quantum-Hall (QH) state. We suggest that this coherent tunneling current could be observed directly in future experiments.

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  1. Department of Physics, Captipal Normal University, Beijing, 100048, P.R. China

    A. C. Ji

  2. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China

    A. C. Ji, Q. Sun, X. H. Hu & W. M. Liu

  3. International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P.R. China

    X. C. Xie

  4. Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 74078, Oklahoma, USA

    X. C. Xie

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Ji, A.C., Sun, Q., Hu, X.H. et al. Quantum phase transitions and coherent tunneling in a bilayer of ultracold atoms with dipole interactions. Eur. Phys. J. B 85, 194 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2012-30151-x

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