@article{ISI:000301772400025,
 abstract = {We develop an inhomogeneous mean-field theory for the extended
Bose-Hubbard model with a quadratic, confining potential. In the absence
of this potential, our mean-field theory yields the phase diagram of the
homogeneous extended Bose-Hubbard model. This phase diagram shows a
superfluid (SF) phase and lobes of Mott-insulator (MI), density-wave
(DW), and supersolid (SS) phases in the plane of the chemical potential
mu and on-site repulsion U; we present phase diagrams for representative
values of V, the repulsive energy for bosons on nearest-neighbor sites.
We demonstrate that, when the confining potential is present, superfluid
and density-wave order parameters are nonuniform; in particular, we
obtain, for a few representative values of parameters, spherical shells
of SF, MI, DW, and SS phases. We explore the implications of our study
for experiments on cold-atom dipolar condensates in optical lattices in
a confining potential.},
 author = {Kurdestany, Jamshid Moradi and Pai, Ramesh V. and Pandit, Rahul},
 doi = {10.1002/andp.201100274},
 issn = {0003-3804},
 journal = {ANNALEN DER PHYSIK},
 month = {APR},
 number = {3-4, SI},
 pages = {234-244},
 times-cited = {10},
 title = {The inhomogeneous extended Bose-Hubbard model: A mean-field theory},
 unique-id = {ISI:000301772400025},
 volume = {524},
 year = {2012}
}