%0 Journal Article
%A Relaño Pérez, Armando
%A Dukelsky, J.
%A Pérez Fernández, P.
%A Arias, J. M.
%T Quantum phase transitions of atom-molecule Bose mixtures in a double-well potential
%D 2014
%@ 1539-3755
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33842
%X The ground state and spectral properties of Bose gases in double-well potentials are studied in two different scenarios: (i) an interacting atomic Bose gas, and (ii) a mixture of an atomic gas interacting with diatomic molecules. A ground state second-order quantum phase transition is observed in both scenarios. For large attractive values of the atom-atom interaction, the ground state is degenerate. For repulsive and small attractive interaction, the ground state is not degenerate and is well approximated by a boson coherent state. Both systems depict an excited state quantum phase transition. In both cases, a critical energy separates a region in which all the energy levels are degenerate in pairs, from another region in which there are no degeneracies. For the atomic system, the critical point displays a singularity in the density of states, whereas this behavior is largely smoothed for the mixed atom-molecule system.
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