Multiband superfluidity and superfluid to band-insulator transition of strongly interacting fermions in an optical lattice

Details Multiband superfluidity and superfluid to band-insulator transition of strongly interacting fermions in an optical lattice Multiband superfluidity and superfluid to band-insulator transition of strongly interacting fermions in an optical lattice

2009-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0984v1

Phys. Rev. A 79, 043626 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

5 pages, 2 figures

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We study the multiband superfluid and the superfluid (SF) to band insulator (BI) transition of strongly interacting fermionic atoms in an optical lattice at a filling of two fermions per well. We present physical arguments to show that a consistent mean field description of this problem is obtained by retaining only intraband pairing between the fermions. Using this approach we obtain a reasonable account of the experimentally observed critical lattice depth for the SF-BI transition and the modulated components of the condensate density, and make predictions for the lattice depth dependence of the quasiparticle gap which can be tested in future experiments. We also highlight some interesting features unique to cold atom superfluids within this intraband pairing approximation; for instance, the pair field is forced to be uniform in space and the Hartree field vanishes identically. These arise as a result of the fact that while the pairing interaction is cut off at the scale of the Debye frequency in conventional superconductors, or at the lattice scale in tight binding model Hamiltonians, such a cutoff is absent for cold Fermi gases.

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