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We study the ground-state properties of ultracold bosons in an optical lattice in the regime of strong interactions. The system is described by a non-standard Bose-Hubbard model with both occupation-dependent tunneling and on-site interaction. We find that for sufficiently strong coupling, the system features a phase transition from a Mott insulator with one particle per site to a superfluid of spatially extended particle pairs living on top of the Mott background-instead of the usual transition to a superfluid of single particles/holes. Increasing the interaction further, a superfluid of particle pairs localized on a single site (rather than being extended) on top of the Mott background appears. This happens at the same interaction strength where the Mott-insulator phase with two particles per site is destroyed completely by particle-hole fluctuations for arbitrarily small tunneling. In another regime, characterized by weak interaction but high occupation numbers, we observe a dynamical instability in the superfluid excitation spectrum. The new ground state is a superfluid, forming a two-dimensional (2D) slab, localized along one spatial direction that is chosen spontaneously. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

Bose-hubbard model with occupation-dependent parameters / Dutta, O.; Eckardt, A.; Hauke, P.; Malomed, B.; Lewenstein, M.. - In: NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. - ISSN 1367-2630. - ELETTRONICO. - 13:2(2011), p. 023019. [10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/023019]

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