Detecting the tunneling rates for strongly interacting fermions on optical lattices

作者:Anfossi Alberto*; Barbiero Luca; Montorsi Arianna
来源:Physical Review A, 2010, 81(4): 043630.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043630

摘要

Strongly interacting fermionic atoms on optical lattices are studied through a Hubbard-like model Hamiltonian, in which tunneling rates of atoms and molecules between neighboring sites are assumed to be different. In the limit of large on-site repulsion U, the model is shown to reproduce the t-J Hamiltonian, in which the J coefficient of the Heisenberg term depends on the particle-assisted tunneling rate g: explicitly, J = 4g(2)/U. At half-filling, g drives a crossover from a Brinkman-Rice paramagnetic insulator of fully localized atoms (g = 0) to the antiferromagnetic Mott insulator of the standard Hubbard case (g = t). This is observed already in the number of doubly occupied sites under the intermediate coupling regime, thus providing a criterion for extracting from measurements the effective value of g.

  • 出版日期2010-4

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