Orbital order of spinless fermions near an optical Feshbach resonance

We study the quantum phases of a three-color Hubbard model that arises in the dynamics of the p-band orbitals of spinless fermions in an optical lattice. Strong, color-dependent interactions are induced by an optical Feshbach resonance. Starting from the microscopic scattering properties of ultracol...

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Main Authors: Hauke, Philipp, Zhao, Erhai, Goyal, Krittika, Deutsch, Ivan H., Liu, W. Vincent, Lewenstein, Maciej
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Published: arXiv 2011
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IPY
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1103.5964
https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5964
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Summary:We study the quantum phases of a three-color Hubbard model that arises in the dynamics of the p-band orbitals of spinless fermions in an optical lattice. Strong, color-dependent interactions are induced by an optical Feshbach resonance. Starting from the microscopic scattering properties of ultracold atoms, we derive the orbital exchange constants at 1/3 filling on the cubic optical lattice. Using this, we compute the phase diagram in a Gutzwiller ansatz. We find novel phases with 'axial orbital order' in which pz and px + ipy (or px - ipy) orbitals alternate. : 4+epsilon pages, 3 figures. Similar to version published in PRA(R)