Condensed Matter Physics With Light And Atoms: Strongly Correlated Cold Fermions in Optical Lattices

Details Condensed Matter Physics With Light And Atoms: Strongly Correlated Cold Fermions in Optical Lattices Condensed Matter Physics With Light And Atoms: Strongly Correlated Cold Fermions in Optical Lattices

2007-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702122v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Lectures given at the Enrico Fermi Summer School on "Ultracold Fermi Gases", organized by M. Inguscio, W. Ketterle and C. Salo

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Various topics at the interface between condensed matter physics and the physics of ultra-cold fermionic atoms in optical lattices are discussed. The lectures start with basic considerations on energy scales, and on the regimes in which a description by an effective Hubbard model is valid. Qualitative ideas about the Mott transition are then presented, both for bosons and fermions, as well as mean-field theories of this phenomenon. Antiferromagnetism of the fermionic Hubbard model at half-filling is briefly reviewed. The possibility that interaction effects facilitate adiabatic cooling is discussed, and the importance of using entropy as a thermometer is emphasized. Geometrical frustration of the lattice, by suppressing spin long-range order, helps revealing genuine Mott physics and exploring unconventional quantum magnetism. The importance of measurement techniques to probe quasiparticle excitations in cold fermionic systems is emphasized, and a recent proposal based on stimulated Raman scattering briefly reviewed. The unconventional nature of these excitations in cuprate superconductors is emphasized.

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