We study the conditions under which, using a canonical transformation, the phases sought after for the repulsive Hubbard model, namely, a Mott insulator in the paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases, and a putative
d-wave superfluid can be deduced from observations in an optical lattice loaded with a spin-imbalanced ultracold Fermi gas with attractive interactions, thus realizing the attractive Hubbard model. We argue that the Mott insulator and antiferromagnetic phase of the repulsive Hubbard model are easier to observe in the attractive Hubbard mode as a band insulator of Cooper pairs and superfluid phase, respectively. The putative
d-wave superfluid phase of the repulsive Hubbard model doped away from half filling is related to a
d-wave antiferromagnetic phase for the attractive Hubbard model. We discuss the advantages of this approach to ``quantum simulate'' the Hubbard model in an optical lattice over the simulation of the doped Hubbard model in the repulsive regime. We also point out a number of technical difficulties of the proposed approach and, in some cases, suggest possible solutions.
An interplay between the superconductivity and spin density wave (SDW) is studied from the perturbative point of view based on the two dimensional Hubbard model. It is shown that the d-pairing superconductivity is induced by spin fluctuations near the SDW boundary. The superconducting transition temperature ( T c ) is found to be remarkably suppressed by the renormalization through the electron self-energy, and to be sensitive to the band parameters due to nesting of the Fermi surface and the presence of the van Hove singularity as well as to the Fermi energy and the on-site interaction. As a consequence T c is enhanced by the next-nearest-neighbour hopping integral. The relation between the present result and experiments of high T c superconductors is discussed.
We study the phase diagram of the extended Hubbard model on a two-dimensional square lattice, including on-site (
U) and nearest-neighbor (
V) interactions, at weak couplings. We show that the charge-density wave phase that is known to occur at half filling when
4V>U gives way to a
dxy-wave superconducting instability away from half filling, when the Fermi surface is not perfectly nested, and for sufficiently large repulsive
V and a range of on-site repulsive interaction
U. In addition, when nesting is further suppressed and in the presence of a nearest-neighbor attraction, a triplet time-reversal breaking
(px+ipy)-wave pairing instability emerges, competing with the ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$ pairing state that is known to dominate at fillings just slightly away from half. At even smaller fillings, where the Fermi surface no longer presents any nesting, the
(px+ipy)-wave superconducting phase dominates in the whole regime of on-site repulsions and nearest-neighbor attractions, while
dxy pairing occurs in the presence of on-site attraction. Our results suggest that zero-energy Majorana fermions can be realized on a square lattice in the presence of a magnetic field. For a system of cold fermionic atoms on a two-dimensional square optical lattice, both an on-site repulsion and a nearest-neighbor attraction would be required, in addition to rotation of the system to create vortices. We discuss possible ways of experimentally engineering the required interaction terms in a cold atom system.
Ultra-cold atom system provides novel technology to simulate traditional solid state physics, including boson and fermion particles. Due to the flexibility of tuning pa- rameters, people can further understand basic physics behind strongly correlated effects, especially mechanism of unconventional density wave and superfluidity. Using weak cou- pling renormalization group method, we propose and study several models which can be realized in experiments. Ranging from most well-known extended Hubbard model, to spin- polarized Fermi Hubbard model and multi-flavor Fermi-Fermi mixture, we establish solid theories to explain the origin of new states of matter, and the experimental techniques to exploit them. The effects of lattice structure and particle density in fermionic system play important roles for determining phase diagram in low energy scale. Due to the presence of lattice, these systems have insulator phase at half-filled. The density imbalance, however, prevents formation of conventional density wave state, and the screening interaction dra- matically affects other species's behavior. The interplay between screening interaction and square lattice is key ingredient of unconventional density wave and superfluidity. Our studyvishows that the unconventional density wave and superfluidity can be realized and detected in ultra-cold atom experiments.
The collective modes representing density fluctuation in a spin density wave (SDW) have been examined for a one-dimensional electron system of a quarter-filled extended Hubbard model with the next-nearest-neighbor interaction ( V 2 ). Within the random phase approximation (RPA), we obtain a new collective mode, which appears with increasing V 2 . The mode describes the relative motion between density wave with up spin and that with down spin. The gap in the excitation spectrum vanishes at a critical value of V 2 corresponding to the onset of the coexistence of 2 k F -SDW, 2 k F -charge density wave and 4 k F -SDW in the ground state ( k F being the Fermi wave vector).
Experiments on polarized fermion gases performed by trapping ultracold atoms in optical lattices allow the study of an attractive Hubbard model for which the strength of the on-site interaction is tuned by means of a Feshbach resonance. Using a well-known particle-hole transformation we discuss how results obtained for this system can be reinterpreted in the context of a doped repulsive Hubbard model. In particular, we show that the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state corresponds to the striped state of the two-dimensional doped positive U Hubbard model. We then use the results of numerical studies of the striped state to relate the periodicity of the FFLO state to the spin polarization. We also comment on the relationship of the d(x(2)-y(2)) superconducting phase of the doped 2D repulsive Hubbard model to a d-wave spin density wave state for the attractive case.