Fermions with attractive interactions on optical lattices and implications for correlated systems

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2008-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1900v2

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043612 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

10 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.78.043612

In this paper we address the behavior of the superfluid transition temperature $T_c$ in the attractive Hubbard model. We study systematically the effects of pairing fluctuations and address all filling fractions over the entire range of attractive interaction strength. While the attractive Hubbard model can be regarded as the generalization of BCS to Bose Einstein condensation (BEC) crossover to a lattice, we find that the BEC limit of this Hubbard model is very different from that of jellium, owing to the strong inter-site repulsion between pairs, which becomes important near half filling when the on-site attraction is strong. A central conclusion of our work is that in a lattice, around half filling, the smooth evolution from the BCS to the BEC limits is interrupted. For the attractive Hubbard model, $T_c$ vanishes when the system approaches the bosonic regime with increasing interaction strength. We suggest that the vanishing of $T_c$ at strong coupling strength may signal a quantum critical transition to another form of superfluid not continuously connected to a BCS-like phase. We present a simple variational ansatz for the ground state in this more strongly coupled superfluid. We further generalize the (s-wave) Hubbard model to d-wave pairing and address issues of potential relevance to high temperature superconductors. For the d-wave case, we present a phase diagram and show that here too, one observes a vanishing of $T_c$ when the pairing onset temperature $T^*$ becomes sufficiently large. We suggest that future experiments on ultracold fermions in optical lattices should not be exclusively limited to the repulsive Hubbard model, but should address the attractive model in order to elucidate features of high temperature superconductivity.

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