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arXiv:1607.08846 · Physical Review A

Supersolid phases of dipolar fermions in a two-dimensional-lattice bilayer array

Arturo Camacho-Guardian, R. Paredes

Published Oct 21, 2016• 7 citations
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Abstract

Supersolid phases as a result of a coexistence of superfluid and density ordered checkerboard phases are predicted to appear in ultracold Fermi molecules confined in a bilayer array of two-dimensional square optical lattices. We demonstrate the existence of these phases within the inhomogeneous mean-field approach. In particular, we show that tuning the interlayer separation distance at a fixed value of the chemical potential produces different fractions of superfluid, density ordered, and supersolid phases.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.94.043638

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We consider a minimal model to describe the quantum phases of ultracold dipolar bosons in two-dimensional square optical lattices. The model is a variation of the extended Bose-Hubbard model and apt to study the quantum phases arising from the variation in the tilt angle $\ensuremath{\theta}$ of the dipolar bosons. At low tilt angles, ${0}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}\ensuremath{\leqslant}\ensuremath{\theta}\ensuremath{\lesssim}{25}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$, the ground states of the system are phases with checkerboard order, which can be either checkerboard supersolids or checkerboard density waves. For high tilt angles, ${35}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}\ensuremath{\lesssim}\ensuremath{\theta}\ensuremath{\lesssim}{55}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$, phases with striped order of the supersolid or density wave are preferred. In the intermediate domain, ${25}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}\ensuremath{\lesssim}\ensuremath{\theta}\ensuremath{\lesssim}{35}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$, an emulsion or superfluid phase intervenes the transition between the checkerboard and the striped phases. The attractive interaction dominates at $\ensuremath{\theta}\ensuremath{\gtrsim}{55}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$, which renders the system unstable, and there is a density collapse. For our studies we use Gutzwiller mean-field theory to obtain the quantum phases and the phase boundaries. In addition, we calculate the phase boundaries between an incompressible and a compressible phase of the system by considering second-order perturbation analysis of the mean-field theory. The analytical results, where applicable, are in excellent agreement with the numerical results. In our study, the incompressible phases have an average occupancy per site $\ensuremath{\rho}\ensuremath{\le}1$, but the compressible phases can have $\ensuremath{\rho}>1$.
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Ultracold Fermi molecules lying in 2D square optical lattices bilayers with its dipole moment perpendicularly aligned to the layers, having interlayer finite range s‐wave interactions, are shown to form superfluid phases, both, in the Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer (BCS) regime of Cooper pairs, and in the condensate regime of bound dimeric molecules. We demonstrate this result using a functional integral scheme within the Ginzburg‐Landau theory. For the deep Berezinskii‐Kosterlitz‐Thouless (BKT) phase transition, we predict critical temperatures around 5nK and 20nK for 23Na40K and OH molecules, which are within reach of current experiments [J. W. Park, S. Will and M. Zwierlein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 205302 (2015)]. image
By using a well-established ``ab initio'' theoretical approach developed in the past to quantitatively study the superconductivity of condensed matter systems, based on the Kohn-Sham density functional theory, I study the superfluid properties and the BCS-BEC crossover of two parallel bi-dimensional layers of fermionic dipolar molecules, where the pairing mechanism leading to superfluidity is provided by the interlayer coupling between dipoles. The finite temperature superfluid properties of both the homogeneous system and one where the fermions in each layer are confined by a square optical lattice are studied at half filling conditions, and for different values of the strength of the confining optical potential. The T = 0 results for the homogeneous system are found to be in excellent agreement with diffusion Monte Carlo results. The superfluid transition temperature in the BCS region is found to increase, for a given interlayer coupling, with the strength of the confining optical potential. A transition occurs at sufficiently small interlayer distances, where the fermions becomes localized within the optical lattice sites in a square geometry with an increased effective lattice constant, forming a system of localized composite bosons. This transition should be signaled by a sudden drop in the superfluid fraction of the system.