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arXiv:1203.6359 · Physical Review Letters

From the Cooper Problem to Canted Supersolids in Bose-Fermi Mixtures

Peter Anders, Philipp Werner, Matthias Troyer, Manfred Sigrist, Lode Pollet

Published Nov 13, 2012• 32 citations
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Abstract

We calculate the phase diagram of the Bose-Fermi Hubbard model on the 3d cubic lattice at fermionic half filling and bosonic unit filling by means of single-site dynamical mean-field theory. For fast bosons, this is equivalent to the Cooper problem in which the bosons can induce s-wave pairing between the fermions. We also find miscible superfluid and canted supersolid phases depending on the interspecies coupling strength. In contrast, slow bosons favor fermionic charge density wave structures for attractive fermionic interactions. These competing instabilities lead to a rich phase diagram within reach of cold gas experiments.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.109.206401

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