Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-08-31
Phys. Rev. B 85, 014509 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
7 pages, 5 figures; minor changes from v1
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.85.014509
The low-temperature properties of the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model are strongly influenced by the fermion density. Away from half-filling, there is a finite-temperature transition to a phase with s-wave pairing order. However, the critical temperature is suppressed to zero at half-filling, where long-range charge-density-wave order also appears, degenerate with superconductivity. This paper presents Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the attractive Hubbard model in the presence of a confining potential V which makes the fermion density \rho{} inhomogeneous across the lattice. Pair correlations are shown to be large at low temperatures in regions of the trapped system with incommensurate filling, and to exhibit a minimum as the local density \rho(i) passes through one fermion per site. In this ring of \rho=1, charge order is enhanced. A comparison is made between treating V within the local-density approximation (LDA) and in an ab initio manner. It is argued that certain sharp features of the LDA result at integer filling do not survive the proximity of doped sites. The critical temperature of confined systems of fixed characteristic density is estimated.
Assmann E.
Batrouni Ghassan George
Chiesa Simone
Evertz Hans Gerd
Scalettar Richard T.
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