Discriminating antiferromagnetic signatures in systems of ultracold fermions by tunable geometric frustration

作者:Chang Chia Chen*; Scalettar Richard T; Gorelik Elena V; Bluemer Nils
来源:Physical Review B, 2013, 88(19): 195121.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.195121

摘要

Recently, it has become possible to tune optical lattices continuously between square and triangular geometries. We compute thermodynamics and spin correlations in the corresponding Hubbard model using a determinant quantum Monte Carlo technique and show that the frustration effects induced by the variable hopping terms can be clearly separated from concomitant bandwidth changes by a proper rescaling of the interaction. An enhancement of the double occupancy by geometric frustration signals the destruction of nontrivial antiferromagnetic correlations at weak coupling and entropy s %26lt;= ln(2) (and restores Pomeranchuk cooling at strong frustration), paving the way to the long-sought experimental detection of antiferromagnetism in ultracold fermions on optical lattices.

  • 出版日期2013-11-12