Tunneling dynamics of bosons in the diamond lattice chain*

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11764039, 11475027, 11865014, 11865014, 11274255, and 11305132), the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province, China (Grant No. 17JR5RA076), and the Scientific Research Project of the Higher Education of Gansu Province, China (Grant No. 2016A-005).

Chang Na-Na, Xue Ju-Kui
       

(color online) The schematic of the diamond lattice chain with three legs, a (blue), b (red), and c (green). Note that εh and εv define the horizontal and vertical tilting while the artificial magnetic field B with the magnetic flux ϕ in a single plaquette (black solid arrows), which is perpendicular to the lattice plane. Lattice sites are designated by the circles with colored solid lines; simply black solid lines indicate sites concerning tunneling of bosons along diverse paths of diamond lattice chain; the yellow shadow rectangle defines the n-th unit cell of the diamond chain, which covers a (blue), b (red), and c (green) sites.