Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-04-26
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
4 pages. pdflatex, 4 figs
Scientific paper
The presence of attractive interaction between fermions can lead to pairing and superfluidity in an optical lattice. The temperature needed to observe superfluidity is about a tenth of the tunneling energy in the optical lattice, and currently beyond experimental reach. However, at strong coupling the precursors to global superfluidity should be visible at achievable temperatures, in terms of fluctuating domains with strong pairing correlations. We explore this regime of the attractive two dimensional fermion Hubbard model, in the presence of a confining potential, using a new Monte Carlo technique. We capture the low temperature inhomogeneous superfluid state with its unusual spectral signatures but mainly focus on the experimentally accessible intermediate temperature state. In this regime, and for the trap center density we consider, there is a large pairing amplitude at the center, spatially correlated into domains extending over several lattice spacings. We map out the thermal evolution of the local density, the double occupancy, the pairing correlations, and the momentum distribution function across this phase fluctuation window.
Datta Sanjoy
Majumdar Pinaki
Singh Viveka Nand
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