Achieving the Néel state in an optical lattice

Autor: Koetsier, A.O., Duine, R.A., Bloch, Immanuel, Stoof, H.T.C., Condensed Matter Theory, Statistical and Computational Physics, Dep Natuurkunde
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, 77(023623), 1. American Physical Society
ISSN: 1050-2947
Popis: We theoretically study the possibility of reaching the antiferromagnetic phase of the Hubbard model by starting from a normal gas of trapped fermionic atoms and adiabatically ramping up an optical lattice. Requirements on the initial temperature and the number of atoms are determined for a three-dimensional square lattice by evaluating the Néel state entropy, taking into account fluctuations around the mean-field solution. We find that these fluctuations place important limitations on adiabatically reaching the Néel state.
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