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...
Published in: | Physical Review A |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/252200 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.051603 https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.051603 |
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 phases with "axial orbital order" in which p z and px+ipy (or px-ipy) orbitals alternate. © 2011 American Physical Society. |
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